Re: Looking for a library databse of books
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:07:46 GMT
Message-ID: <SiCah.25573$cz.389355_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
>>servermachine_at_gmail.com wrote:
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>>>I should correct this to: Looking for a library dataset of books
>>>
>>>servermachine_at_gmail.com wrote:
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>>>>Hey all.
>>>>I'm trying to get hold of a database of books, preferably in sql,
>>>>access or something easily convertable to those.
>>>>The database should be like a library's, with records containing title,
>>>>author, publisher, year, isbn, dewey..etc
>>>>Can anyone help me find one?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>
>>I am curious what difference you think exists between a database and a
>>dataset.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:07:46 GMT
Message-ID: <SiCah.25573$cz.389355_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
servermachine_at_gmail.com wrote:
> I regard a database as a set of related files that are created and > managed by a DBMS, whereas a dataset would be a data file or collection > or interrelated data. > > > Bob Badour wrote: >
>>servermachine_at_gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I should correct this to: Looking for a library dataset of books
>>>
>>>servermachine_at_gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hey all.
>>>>I'm trying to get hold of a database of books, preferably in sql,
>>>>access or something easily convertable to those.
>>>>The database should be like a library's, with records containing title,
>>>>author, publisher, year, isbn, dewey..etc
>>>>Can anyone help me find one?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>
>>I am curious what difference you think exists between a database and a
>>dataset.
If a database with hundreds of relations is in a single physical file, does that make it no longer a database but a dataset instead? Received on Mon Nov 27 2006 - 15:07:46 CET