On 27 Jul 2009, at 10:49pm, CityDev wrote:
> Codd had his 'extended relational model' and I think Chris Date has
> got the
> Third Manifesto. Unfortunately people can't be satisfied they've
> invented
> something really, really simple and just feel proud, they want to
> become
> professors
(Top-posting, sorry.)
What gives is that dbdebunk.com is effectively a fanboy site that has gone too
far and it should generally be ignored; it is not official and has about as
much
to do with Date or The Third Manifesto as a rabid fan site for some TV show or
sport has to do with the
Codd had his 'extended relational model' and I think Chris Date has got the
Third Manifesto. Unfortunately people can't be satisfied they've invented
something really, really simple and just feel proud, they want to become
professors and write impenetrably clever papers that only their colleagues
caution: this thread has a very high probability of veering into the
subjective and the incoherent, and veer far away from SQLite,
nevertheless...
from the recent thread on "what is a relation," I followed Jay's
suggestion and started reading up on relational division (an article
by Celko at
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