Re: Separate PK in Jxn Tbl?
From: Jon Heggland <jon.heggland_at_ntnu.no>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:57:38 +0100
Message-ID: <fnuqfd$p5r$1_at_kuling.itea.ntnu.no>
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> You don't think I was clever enough to come up with the idea all by myself
> do you? :-)
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:57:38 +0100
Message-ID: <fnuqfd$p5r$1_at_kuling.itea.ntnu.no>
Quoth Roy Hann:
> "Jon Heggland" <jon.heggland_at_ntnu.no> wrote in message
> news:fnum74$npo$1_at_kuling.itea.ntnu.no...
>> Quoth Roy Hann: >>> What would be very nice is if one day it were possible for applications >>> to download the relevant constraints at run-time, the way they presently >>> download other metda-data. >> Dataphor does this.
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> You don't think I was clever enough to come up with the idea all by myself
> do you? :-)
Why not? It's a pretty simple idea, really.
> I admire what Dataphor set out to do. But having been forced to adopt SQL
> against my will a long time ago, I am under no illusion that anything better
> than SQL will ever catch on.
Well, Dataphor databases are typically built on top of SQL databases. Just tell management that Dataphor is really just a presentation layer on top of SQL. :)
> The best hope is that embedded SQL might be less stupid in future.
If that was my best hope, i think I would quit being a database engineer.
-- JonReceived on Fri Feb 01 2008 - 10:57:38 CET