- From: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:32:13 +0100
- To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- CC: Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com>, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>, RDB2RDF WG <public-rdb2rdf-wg@w3.org>, "Ezzat, Ahmed" <Ahmed.Ezzat@hp.com>
Michael Hausenblas wrote: > Though I see your point, DDL is the most general form of what we are talking > about, here, covering data model elements I actually think DDL is not a very general form, but rather a very specific language for creating and manipulating relational schema objects. > (for sure DROP, ALTER is not in > scope, but this is a no-brainer, I guess ;) Ok, but DDLs consist *only* of such statements, cf. e.g.: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/sql-syntax-data-definition.html > I'm fine with DDL and think we have used it in the discussion throughout as > such ... We can use the term DDL if everybody in the group got used to it, but from a conceptual point of view I think this is wrong and in order to avoid confusion with the outside world we should rather talk about /data model elements/ or /schema objects/. Sören
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