Re: Interesting article: In the Beginning: An RDBMS history

From: Jonathan Leffler <jleffler_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:51:48 GMT
Message-ID: <8qpXf.9876$x94.8766_at_newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>


paul c wrote:
> paul c wrote:

>> ...
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>> (If so, I'm not sure why SQL products claim to be relational, ...

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> maybe they should be called 'skew-al'?

That's why Date and Darwen have referred to SQL as the Askew Wall; it's the squiffy wall preventing people from entering Relationland.

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