I've never read any of Fabian's articles so this is a
first for me. I thought he made some good points and
from what I THINK I understood from the article, I
tend to agree:
- XML should not be used as a query language
- XML is good as an interchange language between
systems
- SQL doesn't implement the relational model
- A better language is needed to implement the
relational model
He does come across as being rather ascerbic towards
his peers though.
On another note:
>>>>
Incidentally, “inapplicable values” are a red herring.
They are an artifact of bad database design. There is
only
one kind of missing value — unknown — and as I
demonstrate
in the above-mentioned chapter, it can be handled
relationally,
without the huge problems of SQL’s NULLs.
<<<<
can anyone point to an example...
mohammed
- Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else read the novel "Confederacy of
> Dunces" by John Kennedy
> O'Toole? Whenever I read something by Fabian
> Pascal, I'm reminded of
> Ignatius P. O'Reilly for his non-stop vitriol and
> obsession for completely
> irrelevant minutiae...
>
>
>
> on 6/28/04 4:32 PM, Paul Drake at
> discgolfdba_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > straight off of /. (http://slashdot.org)
> > I have not yet RTFA for these yet, (I will) but I
> > wanted to get the first post ;P
> >
> > ok, here comes the fodder.
> > remember to keep your mouth closed while chewing.
> >
> > Pd
>
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