The RDM is an attempt to maximize database management by the DBMS. What is left only in the mind of users--particularly the kind of users we witness here--is nothing but trouble. Reliance on sheer user discipline--for no good reason, for the only reason that SQL is not truly relational and people don't know, understand and appreciate the theoretical foundations of the RDM is what is really absurd here.
That's the reason the IP insists that ALL information is represented EXPLICITLY and in EXACTLY one way, to maximize soundness, power and simplicity. Whoever does not understand this will get nothing better than SQL.
That's the reason the IP insists that ALL information is represented EXPLICITLY and in EXACTLY one way, to maximize soundness, power and simplicity. Whoever does not understand this will get nothing better than SQL.