Re: Lucid statement of the MV vs RM position?

Jon Heggland wrote:
> dawn wrote:
>
> This "just about as easy" again presupposes several important
> assumptions---the disregard for integrity constraints being one of them.
>
> Anyway, since cost seems to be the prime deciding factor for you, I
> doubt any of us will benefit from further discussion. "Cost" is too
> dependent on a host of concrete factors that an abstract system like
> relational theory is just plain silent on. It's also very vague (at
> least until you specify exactly how you measure it), and it's hard to
> isolate the factors that determine it.

Regardless, her assertions about cost contradict what she writes. The ignorant basically proposes biasing expression and changing it later as necessary while hallucinating requirements for that sort of stupidity. Received on Fri May 05 2006 - 15:43:43 CEST