Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!32f31ba7!not-for-mail From: "Alan" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory References: <40c30358$0$568$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <40c30e76$0$563$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <40c324a7$0$34762$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: cdt Lines: 30 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 16:43:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.158.4.151 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1086540197 141.158.4.151 (Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:43:17 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:43:17 EDT Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.theory:35734 X-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:42:36 MST (news.easynews.com) How about, "Entity: The subject or subjects about which the table is concerned." "mAsterdam" wrote in message news:40c324a7$0$34762$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl... > 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. > >