I Date's remarks on the existing 'relational' dbms vendors are brilliant. However, is it practically possible to come up with O(1) joins? On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Cary Millsap <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > After listening to Chris Date at the symposium last March, I'm more > convinced than ever that if (a) SQL were truly relational and (b) people > actually adhered to relational design principles, there would be a far > greater proportion of correctly-functioning high-speed applications in the > world today. > > Cary Millsap > Method R Corporation > http://method-r.com > >