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On Jul 1, 3:43pm, Matthew J Long wrote:
> Subject: Compare Thee to a Database
> "A database is like..." (the Forrest Gump--box of chocolates--thing won't
> work. I already tried!)
A highly specialized library. It only has books and magizines on a few very
closely related topics. The DBMS is the librarian. If you need information,
you have to write a querry for the librarian on a piece of paper. If you only
write the name of a topic, the librarian will give you EVERY book and magazine
under that topic. To save yourself time going through all of that
information, you need to write a more specific query....
(c) Copyright 1997 Danny G. Wood, <smile>
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