- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:59:02 +0100
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On 2012-08-24, at 19:00, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > On 24 Aug 2012, at 12:32, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >> How would you map g-box, g-snap, and g-text in formal relational DBMS terminology? Such a mapping would help many. Basically, mapping to relations, sets of tuples, and notation. > > The SQL spec calls them: > > g-box: "site" or "variable" (e.g., a base table is a site that can hold an instance of a table value) > > g-snap: "value" (e.g., the state of a base table at any given time is a "table value") > > g-text: "SQL-statement", composed of various kinds of "expressions" > > Probably doesn't help too much. No, and circling around, no actual practitioners use those terms with that meaning… If you say SQL Site, or SQL Variable, people will have a different conflicting definition in their head, it doesn't matter what the spec says because hardly anyone* ever reads it. - Steve * proportionally to the size of the user-base. -- Steve Harris, CTO Garlik, a part of Experian +44 7854 417 874 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 653331 VAT # 887 1335 93 Registered office: Landmark House, Experian Way, Nottingham, Notts, NG80 1ZZ
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