Re: Abstract identifiers, logical pointers, or foreign keys considered not enough

Ruud de Koter <ruud_dekoter_at_hp.com> wrote in message news:<3F865867.2D4602E8_at_hp.com>...
> Hi Seun,
>
> Who ever said ad-hoc queries would be performed by end-users? Or are you not
> implying that?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ruud de Koter

Hi Ruud,

It puzzles me myself.

Hmmm ... somewhere in my sleepy brain at 4am in the night a brain cell misfired and told me that the above post is a continuation of the running "Yes or no, pointers are bad and they are one of the reasons why the relational database model is good and network/object models is bad" debate. And its agreed that the adhoc nature of queries you can run on relational or "almost-relational" databases using SQL is one reason for its popularity. And I wanted to chip in that comment as a way of saying that u know based on the way things are today this is less of a strong reason to use SQL/relational rather than more rigid database models.

This seems like a good explanation for my post :-P Hope it makes some sense.

Seun Osewa Received on Fri Oct 10 2003 - 13:00:00 CEST