Re: What is a database?

On 2014-02-28, Derek Asirvadem <derek.asirvadem_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, 28 February 2014 06:07:41 UTC+11, Jan Hidders wrote:
>>
>> Unless we agree on one, and then it is *our* private definition,
>
> I suppose you call that "logic".
>
> Ok, so you can't participate in the thread. You can only participate in
> the opinions about definitions.
>
>> and then we can have a meaningful and fruitful discussion about it.
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> Fruit require seeds, and you have shown me none. All you have done is
> promise to argue about the fruit; that you can redefine stone as fruit.
>
> Oh yeah, and address tiny fragments of my post in isolation from the
> whole, from the thread.
>
>> I'm afraid that for the moment I have to leave your other points for
>> what they are because I have to go and prepare a few lectures on, you
>> know, MVCC and optimistic concurrency management. But you already knew
>> that, didn't you? :-)
>
> You need to tell us about that ?
>
> Ok, God help your students. I will pray for them.

Actually I think, and thought before I saw this post, God help your clients.

I suspect you present a somewhat different face to them from the one you present here, but even so ... .

I wonder if I know any of them.

Eric

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