Walt wrote:
>>
>> > All databases, RM or otherwise, are about record-keeping. That is
>> > their purpose.
>>
>> I presume by "keeping" you mean persistence. By "record" do you mean
>> a tuple of a relation? If so I don't agree. An RDB is about "record
>> keeping", but not an OODB (used appropriately).
>
> I don't think the term "record-keeping" is closely related to the term
> "record" as you assert above.
> Record-keeping predates electronic computers.
Yup. I abandoned this thread as soon as I saw that it was never going to be
about down-to-earth ideas.
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Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Received on Mon Feb 05 2007 - 14:01:13 CST
