Re: Latest version of glossary
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:28:09 GMT
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"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> JOG wrote:
> >
> > When one talks about 2-dimensions and arrays in respect to RM, one is
> > talking about the visualization, not the underlying model.
>
> THANK you!
>
> That issue is so fatiguing. I don't understand why it's so hard
> for people to get. Relations aren't two dimensional.
>
This is why I say that "a relational table is a representation of a relation".
A relational table is 2 dimensional. A relation is n-dimensional. (or of degree n).
In my mind, the confusion of the representation of a thing, and the thing itself, is responsible for many of these fatiguing problems in informatica that just keep coming back like a bad penny. Received on Sat Feb 25 2006 - 15:28:09 CET