Hi Mladen,
Well I think this depends on your individual perspective.
I agree your observations of commercial realities. I think this is
universal for all practitioners. However I also believe that were it not for
the R&D (which also involves mathematical rigour, commercial technologies
like relational databases might not exist. I thought that RDBMS's were a
result of Codd's early work which is *very* mathematical. So as
practitioners, we should perhaps be mindful of the input such activities
have on our commercial worlds.
ALso, I remember reading one of the reviews of Date's book where the intent
was stated as restating the theoretical basis of RDBMSs without much of the
mathematical basis. I haven't read it yet although I'd like to, if I could
only find the time between work and family commitments. I guess this book is
like the practitioners intro to relational theory. Does this match the
perspective of those who have read the book?
I imagine that those who want to read the mathematical basis of these
theories might find what they seek in Codd's original works
Just another opinion worth about $0.02
Russell Searle
On 6/16/05, jsb_at_digistar.com <jsb_at_digistar.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Mladen Gogala wrote:
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> - but like Bruce Hornsby said, "That's just the way it is."
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> regards.
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