Re: One-To-One Relationships

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_ooyah.ac>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:37:51 GMT
Message-ID: <35m3j.61839$PE.40818_at_pd7urf1no>


Bob Badour wrote:
> rpost wrote:

...

>> This is the exact problem Chen identified.   In the relational model
>> it is impossible to have entity-valued attributes, which, in practice,
>> we have a huge amount of.

>
> Entities are figments of our imaginations.
> ...

That's much better than my reply, looks like the essential point to me. Received on Wed Nov 28 2007 - 23:37:51 CET

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