Re: boolean datatype ... wtf?

On 29/09/2010 7:41 AM, Paul Mansour wrote:
> I also realize that there is a distinction between database design,
> and something like tutorial D, a language interface to a DMBS. But it
> does not seem unresonable to say that boolean types are fundamental to
> relational database theory and to any RDMS, even if that RDMS does not
> have an explicit boolean type available to the user (wrongly, I
> think). Maybe that is only because they are fundamental to the
> language interface, but that seems like a distinction without much
> difference.
>

I presume 'boolean types', plural, is just a typo' here (but not in the asktom column!) Ie., there might be many syntaxes but only one type. Received on Wed Sep 29 2010 - 16:55:19 CEST