Re: Database design, Keys and some other things

From: x <x_at_not-exists.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:34:37 +0300
Message-ID: <dhb071$na9$1_at_domitilla.aioe.org>


"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message news:1127753335.528946.79940_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Ok, to describe that better with an example:

> Consider you have a car and over 20 years you gradually bit by bit
> change every single part of it. The paint job, the engine, the
> interior, the chassis... everything, bit by bit. After 20 years it
> doesn't have a single component that was originally in it. It is still
> the SAME car?

What are the attributes of this car ?
Certainly not the paint, the engine, the chassis, the chairs, the wheels, etc.
Could the car be represented as an atomic value, a relation, a database or what ? Received on Tue Sep 27 2005 - 10:34:37 CEST

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