Re: relational reasoning -- why two tables and not one?
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:22:55 -0300
Message-ID: <4ad76883$0$23765$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
>> paul c wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Hann wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> Can one have a donor who has not donated (yet)? ...
>>>
>>> That is a great question because it indicates the rampant database
>>> mysticism in the semi-literate so-called developed world. I'm sure
>>> there are db's where prospective donors are called donors and a donor
>>> isn't required to actually donate! Managers without budgets are
>>> similar.
>>
>> I am not sure what you mean by mysticism. What part is mystical? What
>> makes it mystical?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:22:55 -0300
Message-ID: <4ad76883$0$23765$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
paul c wrote:
> Bob Badour wrote: >
>> paul c wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Hann wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> Can one have a donor who has not donated (yet)? ...
>>>
>>> That is a great question because it indicates the rampant database
>>> mysticism in the semi-literate so-called developed world. I'm sure
>>> there are db's where prospective donors are called donors and a donor
>>> isn't required to actually donate! Managers without budgets are
>>> similar.
>>
>> I am not sure what you mean by mysticism. What part is mystical? What
>> makes it mystical?
> > The label that means what someone wants it to mean instead of what it > means to everybody else.
You refer to mysticism a lot, and I remain unsure what you mean by it. Does that make me a mystic? Received on Thu Oct 15 2009 - 20:22:55 CEST