[MD] Gawain

[ian glendinning]

Ha, very good Marsha .... choose your moral, I do get it, honest ;-)
You don't really want me to talk Tuples do you ?

Data modelling is part of my day job, for the last 10 years or so. (In
fact it's part of everyone's daily life but they just don't call it
that - we are forever deciding what to call things and how to describe
what we mean by them, and how they relate to other things.) So Yes.

That is Yes, but ...

It is that very exclusion of the middles that means I avoid
"relational modelling" like the objectivist plague it really is.
(strict binary taxonomy - is or isn't - very convenient for
"programmers", but too far removed from reality to be much real use.)

So modelling yes; relational modelling, not if I can help it.
Catwalk modelling, nice work if you can get it.
Ian

On 1/23/07, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
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> H Ian,
>
> At 04:49 PM 1/23/2007, you wrote:
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> >BTW Marsha - how would you summarise the moral of the story if not:
> >"In life, it is often better not to make a choice between two
> >choices offered."
> >Ian
>
> As stated in the parable:
> "The moral is that it doesn't matter if your woman is pretty or ugly,
> underneath it all, she's still a witch---and don't you forget it."
>
>
>  From Wikipedia:
> "The relational model depends on the law of excluded middle under
> which anything that is not true is false and anything that is not
> false is true; it also requires every tuple in a relation body to
> have a value for every attribute of that relation."
>
> Didn't you state once you were sometimes responsible for data
> modeling?  Yes?  No?  All of the above???
>
> m
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