Re: Concurrency in an RDB

From: David <davidbl_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: 23 Dec 2006 22:49:34 -0800
Message-ID: <1166942974.445669.91540@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>

Marshall wrote:
> 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?

I can imagine an extent over the submitted articles being useful, but not using the RM to represent the text itself.

Out of interest, do you see a benefit in representing a book relationally, assuming it is only comprised of hierarchical chapters of paragraphs of text?

Cheers,
David Received on Sun Dec 24 2006 - 00:49:34 CST