Re: Why relational division is so uncommon?

From: V.J. Kumar <vjkmail_at_gmail.com>
Date: 27 Apr 2007 05:12:14 +0200
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paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote in news:RqcYh.132205$DE1.59908_at_pd7urf2no:

> V.J. Kumar wrote:

>> Then there is no way to determine whether or not it was paid and your
>> question cannot be answered in principle !  Of course, you can use
>> some other attribute name to reflect the invoice status,  like
>> 'status' for example. 
>> 
>> vj
>> 
>> 

>
> If Invoice had no "paid" attribute, I presume there would be a
> Payments relation.
>

Whatever it is, you can easily derive 'paid' from that 'whatever' and just go from there as if you had the 'paid' atttribute. I am not sure what else I can add to that ...

vj  

> p
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