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[Michael Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>]

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 07:38  PM, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
> 2) I understood the "key point." I didn't /agree/ with it.

> " 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."

I saw his post as something to encourage non-database users to take a  
stab at creating a database, which, like the comparisons of women to  
beer, is something best not overanalyzed. I thought the post was mildly  
funny, but most (well, all) of the replies weren't funny at all, and  
thus were immediately deleted.

Why don't we try comparing:

Device Driver Routines to Vegetables
UNIX Shell Commands to Sexual Positions
Networking cards to Tree Nut Varieties


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