Re: foundations of relational theory?

"Lauri Pietarinen" <lauri.pietarinen_at_atbusiness.com> wrote in message news:bnh5m7$7ij$1_at_nyytiset.pp.htv.fi...
> Bob Badour wrote:
>
> >While I have observed the phenomenon of application developers looking at
> >data management as foreign, I have not observed the converse. The
relational
> >answer to mismatch is to increase the level of abstraction of the
> >application development environment to the level of the dbms.
> >
> >
> Not true. See this quote from Date:
>
> “A quick and admittedly not very scientific survey of a whole shelf load
> of database textbooks--37 in all, to be exact, including essentially all
> of the best-known ones--reveals the following:
> · Only one book had an entire chapter devoted to the topic of integrity
> (and even there I had severe reservations about the quality of the
> treatment).

I don't see how the quoted text is relevant to the issue of whether database managers look at application development as foreign. Am I just being dense? Received on Mon Oct 27 2003 - 00:16:45 CET