Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.glorb.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.netins.net!not-for-mail From: "Dawn M. Wolthuis" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Can these constraint be implemented in an RDBMS ? Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:53:06 -0600 Organization: netINS InterNetNews site Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.120.93.7 X-Trace: news.netins.net 1078339988 477 199.120.93.7 (3 Mar 2004 18:53:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@netins.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:53:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.theory:24375 "Tony" wrote in message news:c0e3f26e.0403030355.2ba25102@posting.google.com... > "Dawn M. Wolthuis" wrote in message news:... > > It is a bit sad that the relational model is practically on its last leg > > before it even has an implementation, eh? Or maybe that's the reason ... ? > > [Just thought I'd show my true colors in case anyone has not realized that > > there are some database theorists that are not relational zealots -- I among > > them] smiles. --dawn > > Is it? What is the great new replacement then - Pick? Going forward from Pick implementations (Pick is not the end-all, to be sure) rather than from RDBMS's is more likely to get us to the next leap in productivity and quality of software applications, in general (there are some applications that would be better served starting with an RDBMS, I suspect). --dawn