Re: Database design

"Mark Johnson" <102334.12_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message news:v9pkv1t2m7v1i6hvduv48fko2g616g3aac_at_4ax.com...
> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote:
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> >"Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message
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> >Well, the slippery part is not that amusing after a while.
>
> >> I am more inclined to read it as just the usual witless gaff of
noticing
> >> that the bounding box of a printed representation of a table has length
> >> width and leaping to the conclusion that a table is therefore
> >> two-dimensional; planar: flat.

> Then I certainly stand to be corrected. I thought the relation was
> thought to be essentially an unordered set or list of entities, and
> nothing more. It exists by itself without any connection to what
> otherwise is known to be related information, until some links are
> added.

> And the question was how is that suitable for representing a
> nested markup language?

You'll have to zonk Leif Biberg Kristensen then maybe he will share his revelations with you.

> >In other thread Mark complained about the slippery aspect of RM if I
recall
> >it correctly.

> What "slippery aspect of RM" do you "recall", exactly?
"To recall" means "to remember".
"slippery" means "tending to slip from the hold or grasp" like soap(er).

You complained about the quality/lack of books about the subject. Received on Tue Feb 21 2006 - 09:22:24 CET