Re: Views for demoralizing
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:58:05 +0100
Message-ID: <8p9s01pqrki6ko46a59ejhdapdij4emtvk_at_4ax.com>
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:49:43 GMT, Jonathan Leffler <jleffler_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>FP: Do me a favor and post a message in that exchange and say I am
>asking her to post the link to our exchange from years ago and that I
>am still waiting for her mathematical proof that MVDBs are relational,
>which she promised then. :)
I am afraid that her proof would consist in something like this:
MVDBs use functions
Functions are relations
MVDBs are relational
Ridiculous.
>Yes. There are a number of people who know and care, but it is hard
>to do much when the main systems are very much based on SQL.
It is not harder than any other innovation.
History is plenty of cases of big companies that have lost big opportunities.
A well known example is when the former almigthy US railroad companies decided to not invest in airplane based transport.
>Backwards compatibility is an incredibly heavy shackle, forever
>constraining that which one would like to do.
Backwards compatibility is often not justified and SQL was not backwards compatible.
> People like
>RequiredTech (of reputed TRDBMS fame) who can start from scratch are
>much better off - right up until they release version 2.0.
Regards Received on Sat Feb 12 2005 - 16:58:05 CET