Re: A searchable datastructure for represeting attributes?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:40:46 +0000 (UTC)
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Saying that a certain design "works" is fairly ambiguous. I can make
the argument that my car works as an electrical generator because the
alternator chages the battery. I think the point being made here is
that even if you can make this approach "work" (whatever that means),
your using the wrong tool for the job. What are you gaining by using an
RDBMS? You can't use data types, you can't use constraints, you don't
even have real tables. Your basically left with a system that you can
kludge data from with sql (although given the fact that the data model
changes like the weather, I don't know how you could ever pull anything
meaningful out). Oracle and other RDBMS cost thousands to millions of
dollars. Why not just store this in flat files rather than incur the
expense and overhead of an RDBMS.
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