Re: The Transrelational Model

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra_at_terra.com.br>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 04:36:31 +0200
Message-ID: <pan.2003.06.01.02.36.31.542730_at_terra.com.br>

On Fri, 30 May 2003 11:14:36 +0000, Neo wrote:

>> ... Type Inheritance...

>
> What does Date say in general on this topic?

        It is a good thing, if done cleanly. See TTM.

        More specifically, he advocates a distinction between the logic type and its possible representations; each type must have at least one possible representation, which might or might not be the stored one.

> Aren't most existing dbs multi-dimensional already?

        Do you mean DBs or DBMSs?

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Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra

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