Jospeh,
if you;d like to borrow it, I recommend "Practical Issues in Databse
Management" by Pascal. that is the book that really opened up my eyes
to viewing SQL as Logical statements and using that for integrity
checking.
-Mike
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 11:09 -0800, T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:45:37AM -0800, Mike Cherba wrote:
> > Joseph,
> > First, let me agree with Larry. Properly viewed SQL is certainly
> > predicate logic. Second, at least where I went to school it was
> > impossible to get ANY computer Science or Electrical engineering degree
> > without having taken at least one course which introduced Predicate
> > Logic. Even the Straight CS flack from the school of Literature Science
> > and the Arts (L.S. & Play) who didn't have to take the Engineering core
> > curriculum still had to take at least one course through the Comp eng
> > dept. they've changed the course since I was there, but here is the
> > current equivalent:
> [..]
>
> Most of the places I have been didn't expect programmers to take anything
> of the sort. But then, remember that the University of Oregon will give
> you a B.S. in Computer Science without ever having to use anything but
> Java and VB.
>
> I'm not used to the notion of associating any form of logic with SQL.
> This is perhaps an implementation issue, however. =)
>
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