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Subject:Re: compare thee to a database From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 3 Jul 1997 10:13:01 -0700
Is this a contest? How about these?
Forrest Gump defines a database: "A database is like a a boc of chocolates -
you never know what you're going to get."
Tom Lehrer defines a database: "A database is like a sewer - what you get
out of it depends on what you put into it."
You get the idea.
--Wayne
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