Re: Mapping arbitrary number of attributes to DB
From: Roy Hann <specially_at_processed.almost.meat>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:49:02 +0100
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:49:02 +0100
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"David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote in message
news:DTm%g.7058$ke4.4635_at_trndny02...
> The problem of coming up with a model so flexible that it can
> automatically
> adapt to any possible change in the universe of discourse is one that has
> vexed practitioners of relational systems for at least 36 years.
No, no, no! A thousand times no. It is purely a programming problem. And it is a programming problem because for some reason in the 21st century we still insist on writing programs. Any DBMS, even a howling piece of crap like MySQL or even MS Access can handle the changing universe of discourse in a trice.
Roy Received on Tue Oct 24 2006 - 13:49:02 CEST