Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!diablo.voicenet.com!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!195.121.255.51.MISMATCH!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 16:05:33 +0200 From: mAsterdam User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: nl, is, fr, de, en, en-us, ja, ko, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: cdt References: <40c30358$0$568$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <40c30e76$0$563$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 Message-ID: <40c324a7$0$34762$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Jun 2004 16:05:27 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.109.233.75 X-Trace: 1086530727 news.xs4all.nl 34762 [::ffff:194.109.233.75]:1804 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.theory:35730 X-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 07:05:12 MST (news.easynews.com) I apologize for the clumsy subject line. I'll think of something better when I repost the whole thing. I won't change it now for easy threading. Alan wrote: > Table: A collection of rows and columns. > Row: A collection of attributes. > Column: An attribute of an entity. > Entity: The subject about which the table is concerned. > > I know this is slightly reflexive, but as you have already indirectly > specified, these terms are best understood as they relate to each other. You > could probably combine the two different takes on this. I'll try. One problem: The implication of the above definitions would be that all columns of a table would necessarily be attributes of *one* entity.