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  • From: Diana Duncan <art2mis AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] mySQL learning curve
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:21:29 -0400


On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 08:26 US/Eastern, Michael D. Thomas wrote:

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.


And if you are designing a shop or warehouse full of racks with instruments in them, and are really concerned about being able to fit as many as possible while still allowing room for the fork-lift truck to move about and being able to find the flutes, and you want to make sure that instruments you usually need to get together are easy to get at the same time, and you are also worried about protecting your instruments against theft and disaster, then you are a DBA.

:)

Diana





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