Re: Database design

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>of dimension as Wol has done, it would make sense to call such tables
>2D, given that each value can be accessed with its [i][j]. This
>misunderstanding crops up all the time, and I fault those with the

I think I'd just emphasize, as well, that what you have is either an insistence upon a narrow definition and refusal to adopt parallel senses of terms, or an ignorance that such can be done. Someone here vociferously objected to referring to a tuple as an entity, which is much more descriptive, and a term which is used. And if I had more precisely termed such a "specific entity", which is how it is used, it would have been to no avail. And when I termed such, an "instance", he was at a loss. Yet it is an instance, when viewed another way. It is a record when viewed another way.

In short, there are multiple senses for these terms, and multiple terms within some context. And some here either know that and don't care, or don't know. And any discussion gets hung up before it begins. Received on Wed Feb 22 2006 - 09:44:08 CET