Re: MERGE as the imperative form of aggregation

From: Jon Heggland <jon.heggland_at_idi.ntnu.no>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:23:44 +0200
Message-ID: <evv8dl$oig$1_at_orkan.itea.ntnu.no>


Marshall wrote:
> Much of the discussion rests on the importance of transition
> constraints. I would like to discuss that. Are they important?
> Fundamental? What theoretic basis do they have? What
> are we to make of the fact that they are tuple oriented
> when the RA isn't?

They aren't necessarily tuple oriented. I thought that was pretty clear from the last(?) "correlating tuples" thread?

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Jon
Received on Mon Apr 16 2007 - 09:23:44 CEST

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