what's an SQL?
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ehrlich" <idavide@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Databasing

Randall P. Linke wrote: Data bases are not for the meek.

I would like to differ. A database is just that -- it could be a box of
handwritten 3x5 cards or pages in a loose-leaf binder or, some high-falutin'
expensive P.C. program. The medium is unimportant: the only important things
are that the data are easy to maintain and access. As a person who has spent
a
career as a database professional, I might choose to keep my data in 3rd
normal
form on a SQL database in a PC -- for me, that is the simplest and most
obvious
way to maintain data. But database means a place where data are kept; how
you
choose to keep them is up to you, as long as you can access and maintain
your
data easily.

David E.
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