Dan Langille wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2002 at 8:54, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > As such, I'd reccommend one of two approaches for you:
> >
> > 1) Post some of your schema ideas here, and let us show you how they
> > are better done relationally. The relational data model has 30 years
> > of thought behind it -- it can solve a lot of problems.
>
> Mike,
>
> Just in case you or others think Josh is some crazed lunatic[1] who
> doesn't know what he's talking about, I support his views on this
> topic. Avoid arrays. Normalize your data.
>
> [1] - Actually, I don't think I know anything about Josh, except that
> he's right about normalizing your data.
Yes, arrays have a very small window of usefulness, but the window does
exist, so we haven't removed them.
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