relational database questions

[Robert Ameeti]

At 9:07 PM -0400, 4/29/08, Josh Davenport wrote:

>1) Panorama is a relational database,

Not by any stretch of the imagination.

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database> and more 
specifically <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model> for all 
of the reasons why Panorama is not a relational database.

In short, a relational database would would follow the relational 
model and would have "... aims that included avoiding, without loss 
of completeness, the need to write computer programs to express 
database queries and enforce database integrity constraints."

As you well know, Panorama has no automatic, built in, method for 
enforcing database integrity between tables. All of this is on the 
shoulders of the programmer to create, integrate, & enforce.
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