Re: Fabian Pascal and RDBMS deficiencies in fully

From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>
To: Aaron Bingham <bingham(at)cenix-bioscience(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: <dananrg(at)yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fabian Pascal and RDBMS deficiencies in fully
Date: 2006-06-13 15:18:17
Message-ID: C0B43359.4CBBB%scott_ribe@killerbytes.com
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> What say we just stop right there and call Date's Relational Model
> what it is: a silly edifice built atop wrong premises.

SQL was a quick and dirty hack (Systems R and R* needed some way to
interface with data) with multiple deficiencies recognized and documented
right within the very first paper by its own authors. To hold it up as any
kind of paradigm is really misinformed.

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Scott Ribe
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http://www.killerbytes.com/
(303) 722-0567 voice

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