Re: database market share 2003

wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au (Noons) wrote in message news:<73e20c6c.0406161947.2cbc4a8c_at_posting.google.com>...
> "Data Goob" <datagoob_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<aFWzc.370$9l2.41_at_fe40.usenetserver.com>...

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> Actually, you don't have a CLUE about how infrastructure
> products are developed or used. Here is a hint: databases
> are NOT to be used by end users.

au contrair (contrare??) mon cheri. while i generally agree with your rants (they often sound like me, but we are not i); the *major* point of the 3NF relational database is that *anyone*, be they human or application code, can access the data at will, and the database and its constraints *guarantee* correctness of the result. if not, we may as well stay in the quaint world of COBOL/VSAM. application independent data is Dr. Codd's gift.

the application is the *data*, not the *code*. the best we can hope for is that coders won't screw it up beyond repair. the roots of the object notion lie in the relational database: all that need be known to ensure data integrity is in the data and its manager. kind of like an object knows what it is, and controls its existence.

robert

 Unless they are called
> Access and are a joke of a toy. Got it?

<snip> Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 16:39:21 CDT