Re: Database design

"Mark Johnson" <102334.12_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message news:v9pkv1t2m7v1i6hvduv48fko2g616g3aac_at_4ax.com...
> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote:
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> >"Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message
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> >> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote in message
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> >Well, the slippery part is not that amusing after a while.
>
> >> I am more inclined to read it as just the usual witless gaff of
noticing
> >> that the bounding box of a printed representation of a table has length
> >> width and leaping to the conclusion that a table is therefore
> >> two-dimensional; planar: flat.

> Then I certainly stand to be corrected. I thought the relation was
> thought to be essentially an unordered set or list of entities, and
> nothing more. It exists by itself without any connection to what
> otherwise is known to be related information, until some links are
> added. And the question was how is that suitable for representing a
> nested markup language?

Have you read this book http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/worldisflat.htm recently Received on Tue Feb 21 2006 - 10:23:38 CET