Re: c.d.theory glossary (repost)

Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:

> mAsterdam writes:
>

>>This glossary seeks to limit lengthy misunderstandings in >>comp.database.theory.
[snip]

> i've done merged taxonomies & glossaries in various fields:
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/index.html#glosnote
> i.e. security, payments, financial, privacy, standards, etc.

Unfortunately http://www.garlic.com times out (no other connectivity problems at this side). Maybe you have another url?

> the issue isn't so much the intercategory relationships ... that could
> be contorted into a rdbms type schema ... although they frequently are
> many-to-many ... (say a word with multiple definitions and/or a
> common/same definition for different words). the somewhat more
> difficult is the arbritrary many-to-many intracategory relationships
> ... aka many-to-many relationships between words ... much more of an
> arbitrary mesh than any sort of structured row/column representation.
>
> there was a story about an attempt to map a relatively
> straight-forward repository of metadata information (another case of
> arbitrary many-to-many mesh structures) into a rdbms paradigm ... and
> it got to over 900 tables (i think before they quit).
[snip]

:-)
To what end? What was the stated purpose? Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 21:52:55 CEST