Re: Another view on analysis and ER

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:38:54 +0100
Message-ID: <475a026d$0$228$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Bob Badour schreef:

> paul c wrote:

>> mAsterdam wrote:

>>> paul c schreef:
>>>> mAsterdam wrote:
>>>>> paul c schreef:
>>>>>
>>>>>> <Nomme, Ans>
>>>>>> <Name, Years>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> are different headings.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. However, having multiple headings in one relation
>>>>> is not part of RM AFAIK. ...
>>>>
>>>> Who said anything about multiple headings in one relation?
>>>
>>> I did. It is the way I labelled:
>>>
>>>  >>> <Nomme, Ans>
>>>  >>> <Name, Years>
>>>
>>> ... appearantly not something you intended.
>>> Why not - or, better: what are they?
>>

>> Oh, it was you, was it? Whew, that was a close one. Maybe I misled
>> with the tilted carets or whatever they're called and should have used
>> braces, also by abbreviating them without type names, which seems
>> common whenever the purpose isn't affected.

>>

>> Anyway, I suppose there might not be anything theoretically wrong with
>> an rdbms that allowed multi-lingual headings, so that the Frenchman
>> could pretend the db was using his lingo and the Englishman his,
>> although they might get up to more hijinks whenever RENAME came into
>> play than those two nationalities ever did in the last 900 years.
>
> If one wants this feature, all one has to do is declare a bunch of views.

Which feature exactly? Views on what?
Who asked for a feature of any kind?
Explanations of solutions to problems one does not grasp do not help. They obfuscate. Who wrote this?

>> If you insist on such a thing, I hope you'll call them some kind of
>> alias as I think there is already more than enough multi-lingual false
>> correctness in the world.

>
> View === some kind of alias

The art of stating the obvious ... Argh! It's Bob! Oh well. I'll push the send button (called 'Verzenden' in my Thunderbird) anyway. Received on Fri Dec 07 2007 - 20:38:54 CST