Re: boolean datatype ... wtf?

From: Paul Mansour <psmansour2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:12:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <5a8b42ba-da97-4b66-a4c8-18913df33186_at_j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>


On Sep 29, 10:55 am, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
> On 29/09/2010 7:41 AM, Paul Mansour wrote:
>
> > I also realize that there is a distinction between database design,
> > and something like tutorial D, a language interface to a DMBS.  But it
> > does not seem unresonable to say that boolean types are fundamental to
> > relational database theory and to any RDMS, even if that RDMS does not
> > have an explicit boolean type available to the user (wrongly, I
> > think).  Maybe that is only because they are fundamental to the
> > language interface, but that seems like a distinction without much
> > difference.
>
> I presume 'boolean types', plural, is just a typo' here (but not in the
> asktom column!)  Ie., there might be many syntaxes but only one type.

Yes indeed. Should have been "it is" rather than "they are" as well. Received on Wed Sep 29 2010 - 17:12:31 CEST

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