Re: S.O.D.A. database Query API - call for comments

In comp.databases JRStern <JRStern_at_gte.net> wrote:
>>O.K. those are the "have done that, been there" old man arguments.
>>Where are the technical ones?
>
> Fundamentals of Database Systems, C.J. Date. You have to ask?

Hm, I start remembering to have read about old hierarchical databases, and they were truely ugly. It's right, the relational model makes it all so much easier to pick completely different views than what the designer thought of in advance - and that's probably the greatest benefit. Any system that can only be used the way the designer want it to be used (I particularly dislike graphical user interfaces and most propetary software systems) is truely badly designed.

I think that in many of those approaches, it's (almost) impossible to find the things deepest in the database without knowing what categories to search in.

I hope S.O.D.A. is better?

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