Re: Confused by "Database" concept in Informix

Posted in 2004

Ronald Cole — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:49:13 -0800 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> writes: > There used to be an Oracle-Informix terms look-up table. Maybe in the > Informix FAQ? I'll try to remember where I last saw it ..... Confusion of terms suck. Reminds me of my stint at an unnamed database vendor where variables in the engine were prefixed with "r" and "t". It was up to you, the engineer, reading the code to figure out if the author was referring to "row/table" or "relation/tuple". -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B