Re: [Finale] TAN^2: building a database for a music library

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/19/2008 10:54 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah David, your right. I know nothing. I suppose the 2 years I made money doing the rather boring work of being a DBA doesn't mean anything. Wow, you sure fooled your bosses. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] TAN^2: building a database for a music library

2008-08-20 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, ok, late diggs. You quite a man there. Really. Couldn't just be quiet about it huh? Had to add your 2 cents? Personally, I don't care what you think. I was Oracle certified, and made a ton of money. So, STFU. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Phil Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At

Re: [Finale] TAN^2: building a database for a music library

2008-08-19 Thread shirling neueweise
Fenton, shut the fuck up guy. er... that's conversational fascism, and worse than anything you've accused david of, in my HUGEly underappreciated opinion. Other people suggested Excel, or even file cards. It worked well for them. (sigh) again: no one has denied these methods can work.

Re: [Finale] TAN^2: building a database for a music library

2008-08-19 Thread Eric Dannewitz
On Aug 19, 2008, at 6:45 PM, shirling neueweise wrote: again: no one has denied these methods can work. several people have pointed out the benefits of relational DB over a flat structure, which you seem to disagree with. fine, but just because you disagree doesn't mean you're right,

Re: [Finale] TAN^2: building a database for a music library

2008-08-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Aug 2008 at 19:21, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I'm not going to argue that a relational database isn't a good thing. It is. For huge amounts of data. You really understand *nothing* about proper database design if you think the *amount* of data involved determines what the level of

Re: [Finale] TAN^2: building a database for a music library

2008-08-19 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah David, your right. I know nothing. I suppose the 2 years I made money doing the rather boring work of being a DBA doesn't mean anything. Nor the time I spent building a rather amazing database that would take a test, and break it up into a dizzying array of tables. Plus all the statistical