From: Peter Brawley
Date: February 13 2009 8:02pm
Subject: Re: Codd's rule 8 (physical data idependence)
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>*Applications should not be logicaly impaired when the physical storage or
>access ethods change.*

Changing the storage engine for tables, for example from a transactional 
to non-transactional engine, changes the database logic.

PB

Yusuf Khan wrote:
> Hello all
>
> Does MySQL 5 conform to Codd's rule 8, i.e. physical data independence,
> which says that:
>
> *Applications should not be logicaly impaired when the physical storage or
> access ethods change.*
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
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