Re: Something new for the New Year (2008).

Rob <rmpsfdbs_at_gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

>You are 100% correct. I totally agree, the model I proposed would not
>stand up. I said essentially the same thing in
>
>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.theory/browse_frm/thread/1394e3efa972255c/5653fd52e5be57ca#5653fd52e5be57ca
>
>(and was called to task for saying that 'there is no "clean,
>efficient way to store this information" in the relational
>model that satisfies all constraints').

     No wonder. For example, the deficiency of an SQL DBMS does not speak against the RM.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:

     I have preferences.
     You have biases.
     He/She has prejudices.