Re: foundations of relational theory?

In article <Npymb.25335$Fm2.12425_at_attbi_s04>, Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com> writes
>> Let me know when Dawn or Mike expresses a new idea.
>
>They don't actually need to for the dynamic I described
>to work. (I misspoke somewhat.) It is enough for them
>to question the ideas that I already have. The act of
>defending them clarifies and deepens my understanding.
>If there are weaknesses, they are exposed; if my understanding
>is flawed, I find that out and can correct it.

And I would echo that. I've actually learned an awful lot in this debate, not about MV or SQL per se, but about putting my feeling about MV into words and maths.

What I need to do now, is to work out how I can prove that MV cannot be improved upon - to prove that it is the Huffman code of data access :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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