[buug] Re: E.F. Codd passed away

cmsclaud at uga.edu cmsclaud at uga.edu
Thu Apr 24 13:48:20 PDT 2003


Nick> Great!  Now maybe we can move on to something not mired in 1970 
IBMisms.

Ian> The relational model is great, it's SQL that stinks.

It's a mixture of things.  On the one hand, SQL is woefully limited 
(and, in a number of respects, simply broken).  But you've also got the 
problem that none of the major database vendors (starting with IBM) have 
fully implemented the relational model.  While you certainly can't fault 
the model (it's just logic, after all), you can blame the implementation.

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