Re: Concurrency in an RDB

David wrote:
> >
> > Sigh. Regardless of the logical data model, a dbms is a formal logic
> > system. The folks who spend money to build databases expect some return
> > for their investment in the form of correct and useful answers.
>
> That's a good characterisation of an RDB. Not particularly relevant
> to a DB used to store the content for a newspaper.

While I am sore tempted to agree that newspapers run in a logic-free environment, I cannot.

Why praytell are newspapers not in a position to benefit from the relational model?  

Marshall Received on Sun Dec 24 2006 - 03:03:24 CET