Re: Windows Ada database support.

From: Georg Bauhaus (sb463ba_at_l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:49:36 +0000 (UTC)

Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

: I think that this is a shortcoming of the very concept of a relational
: view. Relation is not an array. Period.

Who says that a relation is an array?

: Also we should distinguish two cases:
:
: A. Some Ada application stores its data in a database. The way the data are
: organized there is free.
:
: B. Accessing existing (but unknown at design time) data base. The data
: structure is fixed and the application must adapt to it.
:
: A is much easier than B.

Wow. I wonder what kind of trivial or specialized applications you have in
mind. General purpose databases, of whatever flavor, are complex beasts,
no matter what. A lot has been written about databases, many solutions
have been tried, a lot of research is going on. No use ignoring all of
it. So far I think you are just repeating the *questions* that have
accompanied the huge database efforts.

-- Georg

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