Re: Database Builders, Code Generators, On-Topic?

Quoting unnamed sources, Bob Badour claimed:

> "Kenneth Downs" <ken_remove_underscores_downs_at_downsfam.net> wrote in
> message news:0gvrab.dhl.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net...

>> Quoting unnamed sources, Bob Badour claimed:
>>
>> > "Kenneth Downs" <MyUseNetHandle_at_linuxmail.org> wrote in message
>> > news:e3arab.kkk.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net...
>> >> Hi folks.  I've been lurking here for a few weeks now and have made a
>> >> post or two, but up until now have not started a thread.
>> >>
>> >> There is a topic close to my heart which I do not see discussed here
>> >> much,
>> >> and I wonder if it is considered topical.  Briefly, I spend my days
>> >> designing and implementing data-driven systems, wherein we use a
>> > collection
>> >> of tables that describe tables, columns, keys, references and so
>> >> forth.
>> >
>> > This sounds suspiciously like a system catalog.
>>
>> This may be only semantics, but we reserve the term "system catalog" for

>> database server's tables or views of the schema.

>> Our own tables are
>> outside of the system catalog.

Bob, I cannot follow your reasoning because you did not speak to my distinction between the vendor's system catalog (ie, MS SQL Server, DB/2, etc.) and our own application's catalog.

There is no "my catalog" because I am not authoring a DB server, I am using a DB server. Again, we reserve (rightly or wrongly) the term "system catalog" for what the vendor provides to us.

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As for the rest of it, you address each example and point by asserting that you see no value in any of it, so I will have to accept that you don't.

-- 
Kenneth Downs