[FM Discuss] Databases

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Thursday, May 20, 2010, John Curwood <marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi I've tried adding a piece about databases to the introduction.
>
> However my youngest son has been incredibly restless overnight an I just
> couldn't get into the flow with it so it's there but it's not Pretty  ;)

All good, thanks. I am thinking we should use the spreadsheet as an
example of a simple db...or a db as a 'multi sheet spreadsheet' that
is interlinked...taking it back to something that people can
visualise...

Does thatwork for ppl?


>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 18:36 +1000, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 17:45, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> > hey
>> >
>> > just looking at the db manual...looking good.
>> >
>> > the information is excellent but i think it needs more context and
>> > narrative.
>> >
>> > anyone wanting to take this and wrap some context around it? eg. explain
>> > what a database is...explain what sql is...etc
>>
>> Yes! I was in auto pilot when i wrote it last night and wasn't feeling
>> very poetic - but  if anyone else is, please :)
>>
>> > adam
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 22:53 +1000, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>> >> Hola,
>> >>
>> >> Ok, I've largely done the MySQL instructions. If someone could take a
>> >> look and let me know what they think/edit it, that would be great.
>> >>
>> >> It's incredibly rudimentary - it's not meant to be complex - and shows
>> >> what you need to get started.
>> >>
>> >> cheers
>> >> L.
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