Re: What is a "data sublanguage"

From: Roy Hann <specially_at_processed.almost.meat>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:20:33 -0000
Message-ID: <cPadncx4HNXkkvXaRVnygAA@pipex.net>

"Kira Yamato" <kirakun_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:2007121812033875249-kirakun_at_earthlinknet...
> On 2007-12-18 11:19:57 -0500, "David Cressey" <cressey73_at_verizon.net>
> said:
>
> Do you have Date's book An Introduction to Database Systems? It seems to
> have all the answers to all of your questions.

The term sublanguage has always sat awkwardly with me too, so I have just glanced at the above-named book again, but I can't find the term "sublanguage" in the index. It doesn't appear in Date's Relational Database Dictionary either. Perhaps you could give a page reference?

If SQL is a sublanguage, then it might be to language what a subhuman is to a human. ;-)

Roy Received on Tue Dec 18 2007 - 12:20:33 CST