Re: Extending my question. Was: The relational model and relational algebra - why did SQL become the industry standard?
From: Lauri Pietarinen <lauri.pietarinen_at_atbusiness.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:27:42 +0200
Message-ID: <3E4B9D4E.3070703_at_atbusiness.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:27:42 +0200
Message-ID: <3E4B9D4E.3070703_at_atbusiness.com>
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>The book is agnostic on this issue. It's starting point is that you want to
>build an SQL database (and so there are duplicates in your results) and then
>explains how you should do that.
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OK, thanks.
So the answer to my question is
"they have taken SQL as a basis _in_this_book_ but
probably agree otherwise that duplicates should be
avoided and better optimisations would be obtained
without duplicates"
regards,
Lauri Pietarinen
Received on Thu Feb 13 2003 - 14:27:42 CET