Re: Ping: dawn, some mvl questions

On 22 May 2006 14:09:04 -0700, "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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>ordered it in the first place, getting that order back. There really
>might be some subtle, but real, productivity gains by users who enter
>data and have their data retain their original ordering if they ask for
>it again without specifying a new order. They can still do the sort by

     Or there may be some subtle but real inefficiencies because the DBMS has to preserve ordering when it is not needed.

     Why not do analysis and find out instead remaining clueless about how the data is to be used?

>alpha or whatever other ordering, but no information, whether
>understood to be relevant or not up front, was lost if the data were
>modeled as a list.

     So what? If the order matters, that came up in your analysis. If the order does not matter, that came up in your analysis. You did do analysis, right?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Mon May 22 2006 - 23:48:04 CEST