Re: A searchable datastructure for represeting attributes?

John Darrah wrote:

> 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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Because this is only one of the uses of RDMBS in this cases. This one I described is FUBAR but necessary the other ones have normal relational design that would make Dr. Codd proud.

Dre Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 21:05:00 CET