Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?

From: Joe Cosby <joecosby_at_SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:29:48 GMT
Message-ID: <3b5b1b33.9945204_at_news.mindspring.com>


"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> hunched over a computer, typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> laughed madly, then wrote:

>>SQL is a logical language, based on set theory, which describes
>>relations between data sets.
 

>>resolve the relations between the tables internally in order to decide
>>what to extract and present.
>
>You have confused the meaning of relation. The term Relation does not
>describe referential integrity relationships among tables. The term Relation
>describes tables themselves.
>

It's quite possible that I'm not using the word in an accepted way; I think my meaning was perfectly clear.

>This is perhaps the most damaging and the most annoying misconception of
>all.

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Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 20:29:48 CEST

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