Re: Why all the max length constraints?

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 01:52:07 GMT
Message-ID: <btseg.202770$P01.110008_at_pd7tw3no>


paul c wrote:
> ... VSAM had just come out when Codd wrote
> his first paper but it wasn't really new, just an amalgam of previous
> access methods and it was also the new underpinning for IMS so i'd bet
> that Codd had its extremely limited physical perspective in mind when he
> wrote his stuff.

plus he may have been p-offed because the OS buggers/pretend technocrats had misconceived the purposes of db support yet again and even though so long ago, not for the last time (not that i admire the polico technocrats). there's much i don't understand, still why do i not have the patience to read many of these topics except when i'm heavily into the plonk? figuring out why, though pointless, has got to be as significant as many of the posts here. sorry about the uncustomary nuance and please don't answer. please, please don't.

p Received on Mon May 29 2006 - 03:52:07 CEST

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