Re: Database design
From: x <x_at_not-exists.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:41:06 +0200
Message-ID: <dthm54$do2$1_at_emma.aioe.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:41:06 +0200
Message-ID: <dthm54$do2$1_at_emma.aioe.org>
> Flat in the context of a heirarchy. If a relation is simply an
> unordered list, sorted or not, it is flat. But it's a very informal
> and loose characterization, which seems to have rubbed some the wrong
> way; perhaps sparking, in a fuzzy and weakly vague fashion, an
> objection to those who would somehow wish to call multi-dimensions, or
> a Cartesian product, flat. But I don't know.
Please take the time to write a mathematical definition of a hierarchy before writing such nonsense. Received on Wed Feb 22 2006 - 13:41:06 CET