Re: The Relational Model & Queries That Naturally Return Duplicate Rows
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:35:16 -0700 (PDT)
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On 10 oct, 00:36, Erwin <e.sm..._at_myonline.be> wrote:
> On 10 okt, 00:14, Cimode <cim..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Getting an unintuitive point across to somebody who
> > probably never read any significant RM theory material
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> Hmmmmmmmm. Now I'm just being curious.
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> How can you match this claim of yours with the fact that the OP
> explicitly states in his question that
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> "Since this is not a relation - because it contains duplicate rows -
Knowing that a SQL table is the implementation of a relation is the
early stage of questioning the fundamental background of current
implementations.
My guess is the OP is a student or self taught introduced to database systems trying to know more. My post was an attempt at encouraging such behavior. Received on Sun Oct 10 2010 - 09:35:16 CEST