Re: Database design
From: Alexandr Savinov <spam_at_conceptoriented.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:47:23 +0100
Message-ID: <43faefc4$1_at_news.fhg.de>
>> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote:
>>
>>> "Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message
>>> news:3--dnYnbkrrCfmTenZ2dnUVZ8qadnZ2d_at_pipex.net...
>>>> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote in message news:dtcjfn$f87$1_at_nntp.aioe.org...
>>> 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.
>
> A tuple does not equate to an entity, in fact far from it.
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:47:23 +0100
Message-ID: <43faefc4$1_at_news.fhg.de>
JOG schrieb:
> Mark Johnson wrote:
>> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote:
>>
>>> "Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message
>>> news:3--dnYnbkrrCfmTenZ2dnUVZ8qadnZ2d_at_pipex.net...
>>>> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote in message news:dtcjfn$f87$1_at_nntp.aioe.org...
>>> 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.
>
> A tuple does not equate to an entity, in fact far from it.
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