[NCLUG] normalizing data

Matthew Wilcox willy at debian.org
Mon Jan 7 11:08:32 MST 2002


On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:29:11AM -0800, J. Paul Reed wrote:
> Right... but if you're using a poor SQL-look-alike frontend to flat files
> (i.e. MySQL), then you don't know about views... nor do you know about
> referential integrity, transactions, stored procedures, or any of the ACID
> properties... which is why if you're going to do database work that matters
> (tm) (note to Mike... :-), it's gotta be PostgreSQL (yay!) or something you
> pay for (Oracle, Sybase, etc.)

or if you really don't give a damn about SQL, just use sleepycat (says
the debian db2/db3 maintainer).

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