> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > >> Eh? Table, row, column *are* the SQL terminology. The others are
> > >> leftovers from PostQuel, and it's been a long time since we've used
> > >> them consistently anyway.
> >
> > > Okay, then its definitely me confused here ... "The Practical SQL
> > > Handbook", which I don' thave in front of me ... it doesn't refer to
> > > things as table/row/column ... does it?
> >
> > I dunno about that book, but I do have the SQL spec in front of me,
> > and class/instance/attribute are not used in it. Table/row/column
> > are.
>
> Can't ask more definitive then that ... thanks for clarifying and
> confiming ...
I think relational algebra uses the terms relation/attribute and stuff.
The standards themselves use the more common names table/column. I
think Date's stuff uses the relational algebra names, and most academic
papers do perhaps.
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