Re: Question for Microsoft guys

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From: Marvin (Marvin_at_Marvin.com)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:44:48 -0700

Why build an empty elevator shaft?
I guess that is some people's idea of engineering...

"Joe Celko" <joe.celko@northface.edu> wrote in message
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> >> My SQL program trying to compete with flat file system <<
>
> If you want to get data to a single user, in a fixed format, you will
> lose.
>
> The reason we have databases is not speed. Databases are for sharing
> data (concurrency control and all that jazz), and keeping data integrity
> (normal forms, constraints and all that jazz).
>
> You can get to the ground floor a lot faster by jumping down an empty
> elevator shaft instead of waitign for the car to arrive. However, there
> are trade-offs ...
>
> --CELKO--
> ===========================
> Please post DDL, so that people do not have to guess what the keys,
> constraints, Declarative Referential Integrity, datatypes, etc. in your
> schema are.
>
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