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An Alternative to SQL?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Golygydd Max writes "Dave Voorhis from the University of Derbyshire has developed a program incorporating Tutorial D, a language designed to overcome of the shortcomings of SQL, and developed some years ago by Hugh Darwen and Chris Date. Until now, no-one had done anything with it but Voorhis is hoping for wider adoption; although we think it would be like pushing water uphill though." Update: 10/13 12:43 GMT by T : An anonymous reader writes "It's being picky I know, but the university in question is in fact called The University Of Derby, not Derbyshire."

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  1. Heh by FiReaNGeL · · Score: 5, Funny

    The name doesn't help... "Tutorial D" doesn't sound advanced at all...

    Try proposing to your boss to replace your mySQL database with "Tutorial D" for... no good reasons? Will happen. Soon. Right?

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    1. Re:Heh by phrenq · · Score: 2, Funny

      I dunno... if your boss bought in to MySQL, then he may be the suggestible type.

    2. Re:Heh by isny · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sounds like something that the government would put together as part of the tax code. "Yeah, I filed my 1040 with a schedule C and Tutorial D."

  2. Me and my buggywhips by bigattichouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    My buggywhip manufacturing plant uses good old fashioned chained flat files. No one in their right mind would EVER use some *toy* database structure, especially that whole relational database poppycock. balderdash!

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    1. Re:Me and my buggywhips by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

      You and your newfangled buggy whips. Here in the real country we ride horses the way the good lord intended. When we need to store data we just tell old Uncle Jim and he remembers it. Uncle Jim even invented relational data, why he can tell you just about anything the famiily ever done right back to when great great great great great great grand pappy Bill ran away to marry his 14 year old cousin Mary Lou.

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  3. Re:Who remembers Knowledgeman? by joebok · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good old K-Man! A fellow programmer once said to me, "K-Man is like a retarded daughter - she can't do much, but you love her anyway."

  4. Re:Grammar? by e9th · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! Having graduated colledge as a technical writer, much of whose work has been lost due to virii on my boxen, I think you are being unfair. I hope you loose your job, as I did.

  5. Re:I gotta say ... by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, but Pascal is an education-oriented language. Just wait till Ada catches on.

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  6. Re:Grammar? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Funny

    UPDATE tblUsers SET Karma=Karma-1 WHERE UID=743982;

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  7. This could mean... by Performaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    that SQL is SOL.

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  8. Re:shortcomings to sql? by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 1, Funny
    What are the shortcomings to sql? it seems to be able to handle anything you'd need it to do.

    Agreed. But, then again, the only command I EVER need is TRUNCATE. All other SQL commands are useless.

  9. Re:shortcomings to sql? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Joins are a big pain in the butt, and the case statements get so convoluted I feel like I'm writing LISP.

    Pussy.

    Go back to building queries in Access.

  10. Re:Not a replacement language... by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 2, Funny
    If you read the article

    Even if I couln't see your UID, that phrase above would give you away as being "new around here".

  11. Re:Predicate Imputation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://www.codecomments.com/Prolog/message272868.h tml

    At least he stole it from himself, and not somebody else ;).

  12. RPG by stanwirth · · Score: 2, Funny

    RPG already overcomes the shortcomings of SQL

  13. Null=Null is Null, except Group in Group By by Saint+Stephen · · Score: 2, Funny

    One of my favorite idiosyncracies with null is Null = Null is Null (unless you turn that off in the DB), but Group by groups together equal values except it also groups nulls!

  14. Sounds like... by TheVidiot · · Score: 3, Funny


    Jack Black and some bald dude have gotten into databases?

  15. in anger??? by thomasa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quote
    Most people who use databases in anger are familiar with the concept of a relational database.
    Unquote

    Maybe someone could enlighten me as to why the word
    anger is in the first sentence of the article. Why
    would using databases in anger be relevant? I use
    databases in finanical situations, is that similar
    to anger?

  16. Re:Who remembers Knowledgeman? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Was this retarded daughter, then, an immaculate, or neighborly conception?

  17. Re:Who remembers Knowledgeman? by stephanruby · · Score: 5, Funny
    "And that same programmer probably stays up at night wondering why he's still a virgin."

    I take it logic puzzles were never your strong point.