Re: theory and practice: ying and yang

mountain man wrote:

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> Other implications include the possibility that Date has made the
> subject of database systems theory unnecessarily esoteric and
> pedantic, at the expense of usefulness.
>
>

Neatly returning us to the original subject. The "pure" RM has an odor of sterility to it. It is telling that nobody has ever implemented it fully.

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Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)