Re: Why all the max length constraints?

Tony D wrote:
> Keith wrote :
>
> > Your posts make me think this is what you /want/ to believe.
> > That this is what you /feel/ not think. that you are looking
> > not to learn but rather to have your prejudices reinforce
> > themselves.
>
> I may be being uncharitable, but by the tenor of Dawn's posts and of
> what little I have read of her blog, I came to a similar conclusion
> some time ago.

I obviously don't know how to ask questions. I try to make sure that if my question is leading or misleading there is a dog-gone smiley after it just to be sure it is not misinterpreted. I ask questions where I don't know the answer and I try hard to get answers from what is often a rash of insults.

Could you possibly be so kind as to point me to a more helpful group of people who know relational theory as I have been working in the are of data modeling and continue to bump into questions that I would like to ask those who have different perspectives than mine. Asking seemed like a good approach to learning how others think, how others understand the topic, but I, too, am tiring of this approach to dialog where I ask a question or give my perspective on something and then there is a little group that feels a need to bash me on the head for doing so.

Thankfully some like David, Marshall, JOG, x, mAsterdam, Jan and many others do try to discuss the topics, but I'm sure they are tiring of having so much noise in these discussions too. Why not answer questions, participate in the discussion, or ignore the thread instead of this approach? What is your purpose for particiipating in this thread only to try to make this a discussion about me instead of the question I asked?

> This particular thread is so close to being a troll,

hogwash

> given that the premise it starts from is thoroughly discounted in at
> least one of the books Dawn claims to have read,

I read 'em, but didn't memorize 'em, feel free to point me to a page number that answers my question.

> that I'm surprised it
> has gathered as much steam as it has.

Maybe it is a reasonable question to ask and maybe there is a good reasonable response. Maybe you know the good reasonable response and have decided not to offer it and trash me instead, or maybe you don't know the response either in which case we could both learn something from the thread. This is SOOOOO frustrating I could scream! --dawn Received on Sun May 28 2006 - 19:11:39 CEST