Re: how to build a database from scratch
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:42:04 GMT
Message-ID: <gVVeh.30905$cz.463695_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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> The hilarity had to do with that a database is not a database if
> it is not shared. If someone keeps a dossier on each poster to this
> newsgroup and does not share them, the secret dossiers can stillbe
> stored in a database.
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> Do we need a term "databasiness"?
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> [snip]
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:42:04 GMT
Message-ID: <gVVeh.30905$cz.463695_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> "David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote:
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>>It's not clear to me that what you end up building is really a "database", >>regardless of how hilarious Gene thinks this is. It's also not clear to me >>that you are "starting from scratch".
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> The hilarity had to do with that a database is not a database if
> it is not shared. If someone keeps a dossier on each poster to this
> newsgroup and does not share them, the secret dossiers can stillbe
> stored in a database.
>
> Do we need a term "databasiness"?
>
> [snip]
Ah, so that's why Mikito uses so many aliases here: He's trying to confuse the secret dossier keepers. Now, I understand completely. Received on Sun Dec 10 2006 - 16:42:04 CET