Wait. So you have no schemas so you can add tables and stuff willy-nilly, but you don't have any joins so you can't link any of the tables/data together?
That's just-- oh, wait, I get it. There's no point in having joins because it will keep returning duplicate data because without schemas you're going to be storing the same data over and over again in different places because you can't track it.
Actually, no that's wrong, you will need the joins because while you'll be storing "LastName" everywhere, no two values will ever be the same even for two supposedly identical people. So the joins help you see how fubared your data is...so...I guess then you don't need it after all.
Man these guys are good.
Frankly, I think pretty much every major problem in computer science has already been solved -- and mostly by guys who didn't actually have a computer to work with. Sure, there are still new algorithms out there but for what most people want to do? There's a book written by a guy who was dead before you were born that explains how to solve it.
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on 2010-02-24 01:58 pm (UTC)Wait. So you have no schemas so you can add tables and stuff willy-nilly, but you don't have any joins so you can't link any of the tables/data together?
That's just-- oh, wait, I get it. There's no point in having joins because it will keep returning duplicate data because without schemas you're going to be storing the same data over and over again in different places because you can't track it.
Actually, no that's wrong, you will need the joins because while you'll be storing "LastName" everywhere, no two values will ever be the same even for two supposedly identical people. So the joins help you see how fubared your data is...so...I guess then you don't need it after all.
Man these guys are good.
Frankly, I think pretty much every major problem in computer science has already been solved -- and mostly by guys who didn't actually have a computer to work with. Sure, there are still new algorithms out there but for what most people want to do? There's a book written by a guy who was dead before you were born that explains how to solve it.
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Tom