Thanks for the links. Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > There are two notable 'projects' out there: > > 1. There's Darwen and Date's "Tutorial D" language, defined as part > of their "Third Manifesto" about relational databases. > > 2. newSQL <http://newsql.sourceforge.net/>, where they are studying > two syntaxes, one based on Java, and one based on a > simplification (to my mind, oversimplification) of SQL.
I was able to get a pdf coy of the "Third Manifesto" article here: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/darwen95third.html but the details of tutorial D seem not to be a part of that article. NewSQL *might* be cool if someone found reason to use it in a DBMS. Sometimes I wonder why its so important to model data in the "rela- tional way", to think of data in form of sets of tuples rather than tables or lists or whatever. I mean, though its elegant and based on mathematical principles I would like to know why its the _right_ model to follow in designing a DBMS (or database). The way my mind sees it, should we not rather be interested in what works? Seun Osewa ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
