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So would an outside join be where you smash the guitar into the amp?

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> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Steven Champeon
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:48 AM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve
> 
> on Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:58:24PM -0400, Alan MacHett wrote:
> > greetings all,
> >
> > the short of it:
> > On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being HTML 1.0 and 10 being ... well, I
don't
> > know what 10 would be, something like C++ maybe?, ... what would be
the
> > rating for the learning curve of mySQL? ...to become a basic
> > user/operator/manager/whatever.
> 
> Most people I know can't even do HTML with any sort of sense, so I'd
> rather use guitar as an example.
> 
> If you can take your guitar and fetch it from its case, that's a
SELECT.
> 
> If you can tune your guitar, that's an UPDATE.
> 
> If you can put your guitar back in its case, that's an INSERT.
> 
> If you can dash your guitar against a speaker in Townshendesque
mock-rage,
> that's a DELETE.
> 
> If you can make a guitar, that's a CREATE. You sort of have to know
what
> you're doing, and how it will be stored/fetched/played and maybe even
how
> to make it impervious to Townshends.
> 
> All database work, as an old co-worker once told me, amounts to either
> "curdles" (Create/Update/Revert/Delete/List) (and there are far more
> complex forms than MySQL supports natively) or designing the system so
> it can all be done faster or more efficiently.
> 
> If you can play something easy, like anything John Prine ever wrote,
with
> three chords and maybe a run, that's like a simple query, say "SELECT
foo
> FROM table ORDER BY bar".
> 
> If you can play something moderately difficult, like say Mike Cross
doing
> his jacked-up hillbilly bluegrass version of "Greenshields", that's
like
> a moderately complex query involving indexes and JOINs.
> 
> There are harder things, such as repairing a database, optimizing it
so
> it will run faster under heavy load, etc. but like guitar repair,
you'll
> likely never have to deal with them, and there are experts around in
the
> event of an emergency. And MySQL doesn't support the really weird
stuff,
> anyway.
> 
> If you can think clearly and logically, you can design a reasonably
good
> basic database in a couple of hours without much training. And the
MySQL
> docs, while sometimes obtuse, are actually pretty good overall.
> 
> Steve
> 
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