Re: Interpretation of Relations

On 2007-01-21 19:07:01 +1000, Joe Thurbon <usenet_at_thurbon.com> said:

> On 2007-01-21 00:38:42 +1000, Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> said:
>

>> 
>> I suspect he refers to the three relations involved in Hugh Darwen's 
>> paper on replacing NULL with relations. If I am not mistaken, the paper 
>> is called _The final NULL in the Coffin_ (but if I am wrong and you 
>> have to read more than one of Darwen's papers, you will receive no 
>> harm.)

>
> Is that paper available other than via the dbedebunk website? I
> understand that that site is no longer functioning. I think I saw, in
> my earlier readings, what looked like a slideshow involving column-wise
> and row-wise decompositions of null-addled relations: would that be the
> same thing?

Ah, JOG came to the rescue with a link. I had, as it turned out, read that one. I'll also keep an eye out for "final null".

Oh, and also, I just re-read my post. Apologies for the spelling. Ugh. I really need to get a Mac newsreader with spell checking.

Cheers,
Joe Received on Sun Jan 21 2007 - 10:27:46 CET