On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:36:44PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
> dpage@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) writes:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Peter C. Lai <peter@simons-rock.edu> wrote:
> >> On 2010-10-11 05:57:37PM -0600, David Boreham wrote:
> >>> On 10/11/2010 5:46 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> >>> > Just wondering how you guys feel about NoSQL and I just wanted to
> >>> > share the following article...
> >>> >
> >>> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10770
> >>> >
> >>> > Looking to read your feedback and / or opinions.
> >>> http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/
> >>> (warning: may not be sfw).
> >>
> >> Someone should (or probalby has) made one that sounds exactly the same,
> >> except for replacign the Mongo guy with MySQL and the MySQL guy with
> >> PostgreSQL. That might be more apopros all around ;)
> >
> > Someone did indeed do that:
> > http://nigel.mcnie.name/blog/mysql-is-a-database (also nsfw, iirc)
>
> Alas, while it's somewhat funny, it's mighty clear that it's a
> second-degree derivation, which rather diminishes its power.
>
> It gets confused as to who's the questioner, which yanks some sense out
> of it. At the start, the MySQL aficionado is the speaker, taking
> questions, but at the end, somehow the Postgres guy ends up thanking
> everyone for their questions.
>
> To make this work requires that it be rather carefully done; sadly,
> sufficient care doesn't seem to have been taken :-(.
Maybe they stored it in MySQL ;)
Cheers,
David.
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