Re: The term "theory" as in "database theory"
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:30:51 GMT
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> More baiting. The 'harlequin' syndrome?
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> It doesn't look like you are. I would like to see posts from you
> without any agenda, or baiting, or getting drawn into business
> anecdotes. Should I not be holding my breath?
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> I don't see why you can't do MV without sets, and with the use of
> Codd's insights and using traditional predicate logic. It might have
> negative consequences, it might be really good. I don't know, I
> haven't investigated it enough. Point is not to hand wave, and
> actually investigate scientifically (at least as far as a database
> theory forum is concerned).
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:30:51 GMT
Message-ID: <vmJuh.5788$1x.100372_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
JOG wrote:
> Dawn wrote:
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>>JOG wrote >> >>>I still await a >>>post without any agenda, or baiting, or getting drawn into business >>>politics -
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>>OK, it sounds like database theory is a profession that might want to >>have no users or at least users with no requirements, right? ;-) I
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> More baiting. The 'harlequin' syndrome?
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>>could use some of those myself. There is that joke about the librarian >>who said that it was a wonderful day for the library because there were >>only two books checked out and they were both due today. Maybe we >>could write a similar joke about a database theorist? Just wondering >>if I'm getting the picture.
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> It doesn't look like you are. I would like to see posts from you
> without any agenda, or baiting, or getting drawn into business
> anecdotes. Should I not be holding my breath?
That depends: Do you want to asphyxiate?
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>>so you need to use a "reporting tool" which, funny thing, does >>not use exclusively set-based queries in its underbelly (which is the >>reason it can do the job).
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> I don't see why you can't do MV without sets, and with the use of
> Codd's insights and using traditional predicate logic. It might have
> negative consequences, it might be really good. I don't know, I
> haven't investigated it enough. Point is not to hand wave, and
> actually investigate scientifically (at least as far as a database
> theory forum is concerned).
Without the theory, it sucks. Pick proves that beyond any doubt.
[snip] Received on Sat Jan 27 2007 - 15:30:51 CET