Re: Application logic and Business logic

From: Alfredo Novoa (alfredo_novoa_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:32:37 +0100

On 28 Feb 2005 19:05:13 +0000, Patrick May <pjm@spe.com> wrote:

>> > They know, for example, that DBMSs are one way to manage some
>> > types of business logic.
>>
>> DBMSs are THE WAY to manage business logic. If you don't know that
>> then you don't know what a DBMS really is.
>
> I strongly suspect that my background gives me a better
>understanding of the capabilities of the relational approach than you
>have.

I don't care about what your background is, but if you don't know that
DBMSs are intended to manage the business logic then you know very
very little about data management theory. Facts are facts and diplomas
decorate walls.

> I certainly understand that it has limitations, like any
>technology, a fact which you seem not to recognize.

To suggest that the relational approach is a technology shows a
profound ignorance.

BTW I was talking about DBMSs and not about the relational approach.
Another confusion to add to the list.

> Your statement above demonstrates that you have an incredibly
>myopic viewpoint, making communication between us impossible.

I was simply correcting a guy that was posting incorrect and
misleading information in a public newsgroup.

Regards