Re: Has E/R had a negative impact on db?

> I would argue that
> it is exactly *because* ER dialects were ignored as a viable
> alternative for a DBMS logical model, and consequently got swallowed up
> and crushed in the OODBMS avalanche, that the field of database theory
> has been held back.

Darn those OODBMS proponent! They haven't a clue.

> Serious study of object / entity identity would
> have led to simpler and more general models, and we would have had a
> better understanding of schema evolution and temporal databases.

There isn't a shread of evidence for such outrageous and ludicrous statements. Received on Mon Apr 24 2006 - 18:55:22 CEST