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

> > > Jan: 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.
>
> Depending on your definition of OODBMS you may just have accused me of
> being clueless. Was that your intention?

My intention was to bash any person who shows any type of preference, leaning, acceptance, amicable feelings, sympathy, etc to any db that is or appears to be object-oriented in the remotest sense; regardless of what that oodb actually does or how it does or why it does it. These people haven't a clue because they are raising strawman issues that simply do not exist or couldn't be addressed by proper understanding/application of RM which is based on rock solid relational math and set theory. Thirty plus years of research and verification by the best companies like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle with thousand of highly trained engineers taught by Phd professors all around the world simply can't be wrong.

> PS. I did not give you permission to quote me without proper
> attribution, so either attribute properly or don't quote.

OOps, I did it again :) Received on Tue Apr 25 2006 - 19:22:53 CEST