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[Diana Duncan <art2mis AT nc.rr.com>]

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