Re: 4 the FAQ: Are Commercial DBMS Truly Relational?

From: Andrew McDonagh <news_at_andrewcdonagh.f2s.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:02:56 +0100
Message-ID: <ckcbip$7de$1@news.freedom2surf.net>

Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Andrew McDonagh <news_at_andrewcdonagh.f2s.com> wrote:
>
>

>>Laconic2 wrote:
>>
>>>"Paul" <paul_at_test.com> wrote in message
>>>news:41690aad$0$59441$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...

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> As it was worded in one newsgroup I follow: "How fast do you want
> your wrong answers?"

Thats brilliant, I'll use that.

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> They also obfuscate the algorithm, so they are particularly nasty
> when the code has a bug.

and

>
> If you really need the performance boost, micro-fiddling usually
> will not do it; you need a better algorithm.
>

which is a much clearer way of saying what I was trying too. :-)

Andrew Received on Sun Oct 10 2004 - 17:02:56 CDT