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- From: "Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>
- To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: RE: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:26:50 -0400
> > " 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.
Accessibility and accuracy aren't mutually exclusive. I humbly submit a
revision of the original:
- If you can take your guitar and fetch it from the rack where you keep
all of your guitars, that's a SELECT.
- If you can tune your guitar, that's an UPDATE.
- If you get a new guitar and put it on the rack, that's an INSERT.
- If you can dash your guitar against a speaker in Townshendesque
mock-rage, that's a DELETE.
- If you need a new rack for a new type of instrument -- say, a violin
-- then that's CREATE TABLE. 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.
Cheers!
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Re: [internetworkers] Technical writing questions
, (continued)
- Re: [internetworkers] Technical writing questions, Maria Winslow, 10/13/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Technical writing questions, Tanner Lovelace, 10/14/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Technical writing questions, Maria Winslow, 10/14/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Technical writing questions, Steven Champeon, 10/13/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Technical writing questions, Tanner Lovelace, 10/14/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Technical writing questions, Christopher Schmitt, 10/14/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve, David R . Matusiak, 10/13/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve, Michael D. Thomas, 10/13/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve, Michael Czeiszperger, 10/13/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve, Kristen James Eberlein, 10/13/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve, Michael D. Thomas, 10/14/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve, Diana Duncan, 10/15/2003
- [internetworkers] <mySQL learning curve />, Alan MacHett, 10/13/2003
- New Web Site (was RE: [internetworkers] <mySQL learning curve />), Michael D. Thomas, 10/14/2003
- Re: New Web Site (was RE: [internetworkers] <mySQL learning curve />), David Minton, 10/14/2003
- RE: New Web Site (was RE: [internetworkers] <mySQL learning curve />), Shea Tisdale, 10/14/2003
- Re: New Web Site (was RE: [internetworkers] <mySQL learning curve />), David R . Matusiak, 10/14/2003
- Re: New Web Site (was RE: [internetworkers] <mySQL learning curve />), Edward Wesolowski, 10/14/2003
- RE: New Web Site (was RE: [internetworkers] <mySQL learning curve />), Michael D. Thomas, 10/14/2003
- [internetworkers] Re:[voting] New Web Site, Alan MacHett, 10/14/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re:[voting] New Web Site, Ian Meyer, 10/14/2003
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