Re: Date is Incomplete - database application software and database theory

"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message news:81moc.34371$TT.4146_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> My reading of Date allows me to assert his detailed
> coverage of the theoretical ground of database
> systems technology lacks any meaningful discussion
> of the (one would implicity assume exists) application
> system software which is to "inhabit" the system.
>
> This is radical incompleteness of theory.
>
> Are there any parties aware of any other authors
> who allow for the theoretical treatment of the inter-
> relationships between RDBMS software and the
> generic application system software level?

Between the RDBMS software and the application software? Well, he offers Tutorial D and its type system in Third Manifesto - that language is the interface.

But I have to admit I'm somewhat confused by the phrase "generic application system software level", which perhaps needs a few more qualifying nouns and/or adjectives for clarity. :-) Received on Wed May 12 2004 - 15:18:48 CEST