Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpg!apeed
From: apeed@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Andrew B. Peed)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Data vs Application oriented design
Summary: That rings a bell...
Keywords: relational,network,comparison
Message-ID: <4587@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 88 18:06:36 GMT
References: <12673@pyramid.pyramid.com> <69@coot.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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In article <69@coot.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>, chris@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Chris Wood) writes:
> 
> Heretical statement follows:
> 
> Thus it follows that the Relational model is a SUBSET of the network model.
> 
> OOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhh  boy, that ought to generate some flames!

No flames here, Chris. I quite vividly remember hearing this theory in a
lecture during my Intro to Database Theory class at Michigan Tech. Made sense
to me at the time, and it still does now.

Dr. John strikes again! (If you're still getting news feed at MTU, Hi Folks!)


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