Re: Database in depth, by C.J. Date

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@xxxxxxxxxxxx <jsb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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