Re: WHAT vs HOW vs WHERE

On Mon, 31 May 2004 17:43:01 +0300 in comp.databases.theory, "x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

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>"Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra" <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote
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>> Em Sat, 29 May 2004 16:58:24 +0000, Alfredo Novoa escreveu:
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>> >> Indexes are full of pointers.
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>> > Indexes are obsolete :-)
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>> Only if and when transrelational or something the like works,
>> AFAIU.
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>> Until them, the better point is that indexes should be hidden
>> from the users. They are a DBA concern only.
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>No. In TransRelational (TM) *all* data is indexes :-)
>This is the trick *they* don't want you to know :-)

Oh, god! Please don't tell me someone is trying to flog a product based on the old inverted index approach, and claim it's new?

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