Re: What is a "data sublanguage"

From: Kira Yamato <kirakun_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:47:15 -0500
Message-ID: <2007121814471516807-kirakun@earthlinknet>

On 2007-12-18 13:20:33 -0500, "Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> said:

>
> "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

I have the 7th edition. It is on page 37, section 2.3 The External Level.

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-kira

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