Re: Representing data on disk in an MV database - was Re: foundations of relational theory? - some references for the truly starving

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:Dlcmb.20$A85.36_at_news.oracle.com...
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> "Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> > Dear Mikito,
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> > I think you owe Mike an apology.
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> I apologyse. It was rude to criticize the level of your sweet character
> coding discussion.
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> > If you want to discuss the wisdom of using those markers, you might
> > ask how an MV database stores Turkish names which use the y-umlaut
> > character, because that is coded as 0xFF or 255 in the ISO Latin-1
> > character set. And similarly for the other mark bytes. That advances
> > the discussion constructively and makes use (rather than abuse) of the
> > bandwidth - of both the Internet and the people reading this group.
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> I'm sorry, but this idea obvious to anybody who heard the word "unicode".
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Ah, yes. Unicode. How to double to size of you database instantly.

Well, it's pretty obvious now. But 30 years ago we had to live without a lot of the important things we take for granted today: bottled water, virus-spam, telemarketing. It was tough living with only one long distance service and no cable TV, only two political parties and languages like COBOL. Mark Received on Fri Oct 24 2003 - 19:04:03 CEST