Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

In article <e4330f45.0310130430.1f0886d6_at_posting.google.com>, Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es> writes
>> Perhaps you could
>> help me understand where you are coming from, and why you feel the
>> need to be so confrontational and aggressive.
>
>It is very anoying to read the same fallacies again and again. You are
>not very different to other trolls like Neo, Carl and the new
>incorporations like Dawn.

I notice you don't include me ... why not? Because Dawn and me both believe in the same thing.

Oh - and by the way - why are IBM (with DB2), MS (with SQL-Server) and Oracle all busily pinching our (Dawn and my) favourite database's ideas?

At the end of the day, relational is a mathematical model. Yup, it's a damn good model. But any body who believes it is a good model just because it's mathematically perfect quite obviously doesn't live in the real world ... Occams razor is an incredibly simple proof as to why it MUST be imperfect - stuffing a four- (or ten-, or eleven-) dimensional world into a two-dimensional model can't be right :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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