Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

mikepreece <member31023_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message news:<3525594.1067233349_at_dbforums.com>...
> Originally posted by Bob Badour
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> > "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
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> > > "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
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> > > > > Pointers need not exist for data to be stored/retrieved
> > in/from a
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> > > > > database with their relationships intact. The relationships
> > between
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> > > > > data can exist without any physical representation at all
> > beyond their
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> > > > > proximity to each other.
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> > > >
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> > > > Um, what is more physical than physical juxtaposition?
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> > > I think if you reread the sentence you will see that he
> > *does*
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> > > consider proximity to be a physical representation. The key
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> > > word is "beyond."
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> > True. I guess I have to ask: Was there any point to what he wrote?
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> "There is an inherent beauty in the Pick model in that relationships
> between data can be implied by their actual proximity to each other, and
> that each of these data can similarly have an implied relationship to
> multiple data, and that all of these relationships can be determined
> from a single read and maintained by a single write."

What can I say? There is no accounting for taste. Received on Mon Oct 27 2003 - 19:09:51 CET