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 |  | Agreed.
As I said, market share is far from conclusive. And it's presumptuous to
think, without further evidence, that either the ones who chose...
Laconic2
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04-26-2004 04:34 PM
Anthony W. Youngman  | 72 | 647 |
| | | In trying to get a better handle on relational database design compared to
XML or PICK database design, I'm writing up the example below and got...
Dawn M. Wolthuis
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04-26-2004 06:54 AM
x | 219 | 1,583 |
 | | Here is another start.
If it is appreciated, I'll post the glossary once in a while.
--------------- "Some appetizer quote" ...
mAsterdam
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04-25-2004 05:48 PM
mAsterdam | 2 | 118 |
| | | Hi there
Imagine a database that is only accessed by a server application. This
application provides the ability for admin users to create...
Karen Sundquist
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04-24-2004 10:27 AM
mAsterdam | 9 | 93 |
| | | In another topic, the question got raised whether source code is metadata.
There is a way in which source code might be considered "metaprocess". ...
Laconic2
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04-24-2004 09:05 AM
Anthony W. Youngman | 7 | 100 |
| | | Which words should be in it?
Short posts for now, please.
mAsterdam
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04-24-2004 02:23 AM
mAsterdam | 30 | 279 |
| | | Hi all -
I am trying to design a schema for my super-duper, ultimate web-based
jukebox. One of the things I want to do is break out of the...
Ian Pilcher
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04-23-2004 03:08 PM
Richard Harnden | 7 | 91 |
| | | "Conjunction junction, what's your function?"
Anybody remember this from Saturday morning shorts about 20 years ago?
Laconic2
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04-22-2004 02:59 PM
Alan | 1 | 91 |
| | | Among the questions I have recorded from my recent database research is one
about the attributes of attribute values.
Is there any provision in...
Dawn M. Wolthuis
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04-22-2004 12:39 AM
Neo | 7 | 66 |
| | | et al:
One more thing: since it is possible Brown is correct on this matter some
might wish to brush up on their Critical Thinking. Sagan's...
Timothy J. Bruce
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04-21-2004 04:30 PM
Laconic2 | 21 | 579 |
| | | On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:46:19 -0700, "Tom Hester" <$$tom (AT) metadata (DOT) com>
wrote:
I have to hold my hand up and say I haven't even heard of...
Dawn M. Wolthuis
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04-21-2004 03:55 PM
Anthony W. Youngman | 44 | 333 |
| | | Laconic2:
I have never heard of such a thing! I use LDAP, WinNT, and IIS URIs
almost every day, but I have never heard of a `Relational URI'.
I...
Timothy J. Bruce
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04-21-2004 02:47 PM
Timothy J. Bruce | 6 | 96 |
| | | Jacob W. Haller <yoof (AT) jwgh (DOT) org> wrote
This has such signifigant meaning it should have been cross-posted.
PLONK!
Alien intervention...
Laconic2
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04-21-2004 12:22 PM
Anthony W. Youngman | 31 | 298 |
| | | What information is lost at capture-time?
1. reference to information not already available.
2. information that doesn't fit the existing...
mAsterdam
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04-21-2004 04:35 AM
mAsterdam | 2 | 84 |
| | | I'm reading a generic database textbook and it states that when databases
are recovering undo is applied before redo. It doesn't say why. Does...
Ryan
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04-20-2004 11:04 AM
Wayne Warren | 19 | 196 |
| | | Dawn,
Your description of the experiences that led you to your current struggle
set me to thinking in a new direction. I want to explore this...
Laconic2
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04-20-2004 08:32 AM
Dawn M. Wolthuis | 18 | 143 |
| | | What do you already know?
Laconic2
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04-20-2004 07:07 AM
Laconic2 | 0 | 92 |
| | | I am trying to find a design that maintains referential integrity with
multiple parent tables. For example, suppose we have the following:
Create...
T
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04-19-2004 06:18 PM
--CELKO-- | 11 | 152 |
| | | Em Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:03:15 -0400, Laconic2 escreveu:
It does. But in current parlance it can mean both a database
managed by the Oracle SQL...
Ryan
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04-19-2004 01:47 PM
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra | 7 | 98 |
| | | http://www.thethirdmanifesto.com
Regards
Alfredo
Alfredo Novoa
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04-19-2004 06:46 AM
Alfredo Novoa | 0 | 74 |
| | | I was just reading a little about LDAP because I often hear it talked about
as a including (or even being) a hierarchical database. That led to...
Dawn M. Wolthuis
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04-18-2004 07:47 PM
Dawn M. Wolthuis | 5 | 115 |
| | | "A model is a metaphor". This is a good metaphor for what a model is. But
it isn't a very good model of a model.
I recently ran across this...
Laconic2
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04-18-2004 03:38 AM
Timothy J. Bruce | 3 | 176 |
| | | I have a table, location, of place names eg
place
-----
London
Hong Kong
New York
and wish to search for any places in a user-entered search string...
abracad
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04-17-2004 09:04 PM
Timothy J. Bruce | 1 | 77 |
| | | The descriptions of the object oriented approach often begin with two basic
concepts: objects and messages.
At some point we are told that...
Laconic2
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04-16-2004 10:51 AM
Laconic2 | 5 | 97 |
| | | Hello,
I've found various old documents on the web which state that SQL/Temporal
AKA TSQL should be adopted as on official ISO/ANSI/...-standard...
Troels Arvin
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04-16-2004 01:33 AM
Lauri Pietarinen | 2 | 117 |
| | | This example models two pizza orders using XDb1. The first order
consists of a small, thin pizza with mozzarella and veggies. The
second order...
Neo
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04-15-2004 11:16 PM
Neo | 1 | 74 |
| | | Greetings,
The paper "The Third-Generation Database System Manifesto" written by The
Committee for Advanced DBMS Function (1990) a set of...
Scottie Swenson
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04-15-2004 06:19 PM
Timothy J. Bruce | 3 | 102 |
| | | Sorry I have so many questions, but I do appreciate the help I have received
from this list. I just read, or rather, skimmed the document Jan...
Dawn M. Wolthuis
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04-15-2004 05:12 PM
Dan | 57 | 367 |
| | | When you pack a Computer for delivery to the home, there are two things you
always include: The "Read Me First" leaflet, and the "Bill of...
Laconic2
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04-15-2004 01:52 PM
Timothy J. Bruce | 3 | 90 |
| | | Tired of 'googling'... everywhere I read statements about SQL compliance
(e.g. SQL92 Entry Level) but how can I verify this? Google? No results....
jim caprioli
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04-15-2004 05:34 AM
jim caprioli | 3 | 108 |
| | | Hello everybody,
I am trying to create a database of books (for personal use),
and have some doubts about correctness of my design:
Let's say that...
ddtl
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04-13-2004 10:19 PM
Timothy J. Bruce | 2 | 70 |
| | | Jonathan Leffler raved in message
news:SJb5c.21877$%06.3654 (AT) newsread2 (DOT) news.pas.earthlink.net...
Since three replies were generated the...
Timothy J. Bruce
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04-13-2004 02:29 AM
Timothy J. Bruce | 0 | 99 |
| | | I am currently in the process of implementing a "personal relational
database" application and am looking for collections of data for...
James L. Ryan
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04-13-2004 01:13 AM
Timothy J. Bruce | 2 | 100 |
| | | Greetings,
I am doing research into distributed database designs. I have run into a
few scattered papers and even fewer books.
I am considering...
Scottie Swenson
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04-10-2004 03:06 AM
Dan | 1 | 79 |
| | | I have the following 2 tables:
location:
place lft rgt
-------------------
Europe 0 99
England 1 10
France 11 20
Italy 21 30
Asia 100 199
abracad
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04-09-2004 03:56 PM
abracad | 0 | 91 |
| | | Way back in the early sixties, the following scenario was imagined fairly
often, and may actually have happened.
A guy is walking down the...
Laconic2
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04-09-2004 09:25 AM
Laconic2 | 0 | 96 |
| | | The recent discussions of the relational model, OTLT and Pizza among others,
led me to haul out my copy of "Object Oriented Analysis" by Coad...
Laconic2
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04-08-2004 10:32 AM
Eric Kaun | 1 | 84 |
| | | Artificial : SSN, ISBN.
Surrogate : a unique key (often extra), mostly used only in internal
programming.
But I think I have to explain :
"So using...
ben brugman
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04-08-2004 05:07 AM
Mike Sherrill | 11 | 142 |
| | | Taking it one step further. A good OOA model can be used to derive an ER
model in a matter of hours.
It's just a projection onto the data...
Laconic2
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04-07-2004 08:58 PM
Laconic2 | 7 | 81 |
| | | Periodically someone in this forum fulminates against the use of the terms
"field" and "record" instead of "column" and "row". (are you...
Laconic2
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04-07-2004 03:19 PM
Eric Kaun | 2 | 129 |
| | | Let's say that a USER (programmed or human) does an INSERT of a new table
row that duplicates, column for column, the values in an existing...
Laconic2
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04-07-2004 03:13 PM
N. Shamsundar | 4 | 100 |
| | | Greetings:
Normally when I am naughty I like to whip myself with a scourge, but
tonight I decided to implement Darwen's PERSINFO relation with...
Timothy J. Bruce
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04-07-2004 03:34 AM
Timothy J. Bruce | 0 | 69 |
| | | Thanks Tom. I will look into that.
"Tom Hester" <$$tom (AT) metadata (DOT) com> wrote
researcher
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04-06-2004 05:17 PM
researcher | 1 | 75 |
| | | CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
1st INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON APPLICATIONS OF
CONSTRAINT DATABASES (CDB'04)
in conjunction with SIGMOD-PODS 2004
Paris,...
Floris Geerts
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04-05-2004 02:25 PM
Floris Geerts | 0 | 82 |
| | | In logic, an abstraction class (A) is defined: A is defined as the
expression {y | p }, where y is the universal set of sets and p is a
well-formed...
D Guntermann
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04-05-2004 07:45 AM
Laconic2 | 10 | 155 |
| | | Hi,
Recently, I've seen some papers that confuse the notions of
FOL satisfiability in logic (where the domain is specified in the model
and may take...
Anthony WIDJAJA
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04-04-2004 07:09 PM
Jan Hidders | 1 | 68 |
| | | I hope this is the correct newsgroup for this query (if not please
give me a pointer to where is best):
I understand the theory of normalisation etc...
Louis Aslett
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04-03-2004 09:29 AM
Louis Aslett | 0 | 78 |
| | | "Mike Sherrill" <MSherrillnonono (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote
I was wondering the same thing. WAIT! The urge just struck me to look up
code...
Eric Kaun
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04-03-2004 08:27 AM
Mike Sherrill | 3 | 88 |
| | | Hello all!
I have an important question about scheduling and the underlying
read-write model:
Is it right, that the read-write model dictates, that...
Karsten Wutzke
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04-03-2004 03:43 AM
mAsterdam | 2 | 89 |
| | | I have several different media for sale:
5" 640 MB optical disks (aka PD disks)
3" 125 MB optical disks (sometimes referred to as optimagneto)
3"...
Mike L
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04-02-2004 11:02 PM
Mike L | 0 | 120 |
