This leads to a question.
One way to model many to one is for the attacher
table to hold a foreign key to the attachee table.
Why couldn't some relational database support

I am a newbie in database theory, but I think it cannot prevent me from
making some contributions to the field, not in theory, but in database
performance. That is, what I am interested in the database is how to do
match, not its interface or its language. Is it the right place to ...

DonR responded to me, a while back with this:

The discussion about dynamic typing and the discussion about Dawn's new blog
both put me in mind of an old topic:  early and late binding.
I searched the web, and got a lot of articles on this subject.  All the ones
I've read so far deal with two specific instances of early and late ...

Hi. I'm a newbie data modeler, and I'm having a tough time with what
seems like a simple data modeling / identity modeling problem, but
which has been giving me fits.
For the purposes of this discussion, I need four relations, working

Hey Joe,
An online friend of mine tells me that I'm listed as a contributor in the
latest edition of SQL for Smarties.  Is that worth a complimentary copy?

Folks,
I've read Date, Darwen and Pascal's ideas on how their relational
model is based on set theory (I assume they mean ZFC, but it's
probably not important) and two-valued logic, and they've done a

Sorry for the non descriptive title but I wasn't really sure how to
describe it.
I have a scenario where I have the following tables.
Projects (PK ProjectID, FK ProposalID -> Proposals)

How would you try to proove statiscally that two sets of data are
related?
The thing is I have access to a very big database of company losses,
from various compnious and concerning different kinds of losses. Now I

How would someone be able to search through like 1.5 million records
looking for a specific piece of text in a field without having to do a
linear search through each record, given the fact that they do not have
any information about the other fields in the table?

The first installment of the tincat mewsings blog has been posted.  It
should be a good read and is guaranteed raise an eyebrow for some,
although this group of readers will not find it surprising.  It tried
to be accurate and also clear when an opinion is being expressed.

Please help me folks .
My goal is to find tool(s) that :
1. allows to edit ERD
2. allows syncronization between DB and ERD

Paul C.  said that he's still far from a database expert.  So am I.  But
I've been learning, since about 1980.
Over time  (a long time!)  I've noticed a pattern in the growth of my
knowledge.

As promised in the thread titled "So what's null then if it's not
nothing?", I have started a new thread to discuss Pick in depth, if
anyone is interested.
I just realized it 2am and I have to get up in a few hours and stuff

My name is Matti and I started to study BCS(British Computing Society)
Diploma.
Because I'm quite new to the subject I was just wondering if anybody
could help me.