Darren Duncan wrote: > > > Or at least it is in the version of the relational model > that allows non-scalar attribute values, but that is the one that Chris > Date et > al, as well as myself ascribe to. > >
I didn't read this through but I recall Chris Date defining a relational database as formed from relations normalised to 1NF. First Normal Form basically means no substructure ie each column is a single value from a scalar domain. To say it would be nice to have structured data is ignoring two things: i) we've got this for just fine without it, and ii) SQL is a first-order language so it can't easily handle substructure. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-within-a-table---tp26125451p26154639.html Sent from the SQLite mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
