Re: Is mysql a RDBMS ?

"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message news:bj0d5c$1fbc$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com...
> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
> news:U9r3b.72$Br4.10705055_at_mantis.golden.net...
> > "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote in message
> > news:bil8gl$anhtd$1_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de...
> [snip]
> > > "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found
> > > difficult and not tried." -- G.K. Chesterton
> >
> > The problem with the relational model is that it has never been found
> > difficult. It has been assumed difficult and not tried.
>
> I would say that it was assumed difficult when System R was built. Oracle
had to copy
> the IBM standard to be commercially viable and the rest is history; i.e.
we are
> locked in (albeit only weakly) to SQL.
>
> Actually, it possibly *was* difficult back in those days with the limited
CPU and
> memory available.

Sadly, logical identity would have helped back in the days of limited CPU and memory. Received on Tue Sep 02 2003 - 02:11:42 CEST