Re: Why are [Database] Mathematicians Crippled ?

On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 12:01:04 PM UTC-8, Norbert_Paul wrote:
> > No, I think you misunderstand what he is trying to do and what he is asking.
> > He is proposing an extension of the relational model with new concepts that
> > can deal with data that represents toplogies over other data. And his
> > question is if practitioners could make sense of these concepts and use
> > them.
> >
> > The answer seems to be "no".
>
> Yes, obviously.

There is a reason for that. As Todd J. Green eloquently put it, database practitioners are buried in a soul crushing routine work (select * from employees and some such). There is not a lot of insight to gain there.

It is not a secret that [SQL] database applications in science are mediocre, at best. Still, I would suggest looking up there (rather than in "more practical" fields. For example, chemical databases do some nontrivial matching of substances. Likewise, in protein chemistry topology might be very important. Received on Fri Jan 30 2015 - 22:00:54 CET