Re: The OverRelational Manifesto ("TheORM"). Needs to be debunked.

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_novoa_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 2 May 2006 10:18:39 -0700
Message-ID: <1146590319.347285.230380@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>

Hi,

>...SHIPMENT
>{
> No INTEGER;
> WareFrom WAREHOUSE;
> Items SET OF
> {
> Article STRING;
> Pieces INTEGER;
> }key (Article)

>}key (No)

>Of course, at that we assume that powerful and smart translator exists
>to translate this expression. Of course some rules for such description
>must exist. But anyway, result is the same - the SET of two relvars
>(named as "SHIPMENT" and "SHIPMENT.Itmes") will be created in system,
>and user can manipulate with values of these variables.

>My question for you, dear debunkers, is "How and where does such
>translator broke relational data model?". Try to debunk this
>translator.

In no way, but this does not make a new data model. This is only a syntactic shorthand with a questionable elegance and usefulness.

Why don't you say that you simply want to design a new relational language?

Regards
Alfredo Received on Tue May 02 2006 - 12:18:39 CDT