Let's do it in a complicated way
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@Tim G said:
I like this idea. Have your data as pages of text and put them up on the web along with a sitemap as the "schema". Then just do a "site:db.example.com" search. You'd need to reversibly encrypt the pages, of course.
Do you happen to recall the exact date you turned evil?
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@Kittemon said:
it's at least conceivable that such a structure might work better for the desired purpose than a proper intersection table would.
I think we'll agree it's a very slim (and sharp) edge case.
@Kittemon said:
Of course, such advice is easily misunderstood by the clueless who are in search of advice.
We could debate that the advice (pros/cons) may not have been communicated properly... but all bets are off when it comes to the clueless.
@Sutherlands said:
"I'm not a <insert DB role here>"?
<unpedant>YessssSSSSSS! My work is done!</unpedant>
@TheCPUWizard said:
there is a difference [in SQLServer at least] between a "temporary table" and a "table variable"!
Not heard of the latter (I'm not an SQLServer bod) but grateful for the education, nonetheless.
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@Cassidy said:
@TheCPUWizard said:
there is a difference [in SQLServer at least] between a "temporary table" and a "table variable"!
Not heard of the latter (I'm not an SQLServer bod) but grateful for the education, nonetheless.Oracle has them, too, via user created types. (You speak a lot about PL/SQL, so I'm assuming you're familiar with Oracle.)
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@boomzilla said:
(You speak a lot about PL/SQL, so I'm assuming you're familiar with Oracle.)
You assume correct - I teach (Oracle) DBA and SQL but not PL/SQL. Useful link - the comparison to a Java array I can understand.
Can it work like a queue/stack? Are there pop/push/shift/unshift operations?
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@da Doctah said:
@Tim G said:
I like this idea. Have your data as pages of text and put them up on the web along with a sitemap as the "schema". Then just do a "site:db.example.com" search. You'd need to reversibly encrypt the pages, of course.
Do you happen to recall the exact date you turned evil?
Practically new at it. How am I doing? Needs more extraneous XML?
