Re: Pizza Example
From: Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:12:36 GMT
Message-ID: <oIBdc.65756$%Y6.4500616_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be>
>
> That is really the big question I'm trying to answer -- why, after knowing
> Oracle and other RDBMS software, would I choose to go wtih a database that
> doesn't follow the rules for being a database? I'm still trying to pinpoint
> that myself.
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:12:36 GMT
Message-ID: <oIBdc.65756$%Y6.4500616_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be>
Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
> "Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message
> news:KGmdc.65126$bn6.4336759_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...
>>[...] Could you, just to indulge me, sketch for me what you think >>the trade-offs are and under what circumstances you would prefer one >>type of system over the other?
>
> That is really the big question I'm trying to answer -- why, after knowing
> Oracle and other RDBMS software, would I choose to go wtih a database that
> doesn't follow the rules for being a database? I'm still trying to pinpoint
> that myself.
So, since you have thought so very deeply about this you surely know the
textbook answer to that question. Is your experience in agreement with
that answer or does it contradict it?
Received on Fri Apr 09 2004 - 20:12:36 CEST