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Galen Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu wrote:
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>>Joel Garry wrote: >> It can be argued that >> >>>a spreadsheet is quite relational - rows and columns, and >>>that's it. >> >>Not by anyone that ever spent more than one hour in a class on >>"What is a relational database" unless they were asleep.
I've seen it used too many times ... too many times. But that analogy also quite adequately describes a fact table or a mainframe database built in COBOL and that is precisely the problem.
Joe Celko can rant for hours on why a table is not columns and rows. I won't but he is correct. And there are few that know the subject better than Joe.
Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 00:33:44 CDT
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