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AskSQLTeam
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Posted - 2006-04-11 : 09:33:00
Ashley writes "The worldwide web is an example of what kind of database?"

Merkin
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Posted - 2006-04-11 : 09:47:38
A wonderful one

Seriously though, if this is your homework... you should quit the course before the damage is irrepairable


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X002548
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Posted - 2006-04-11 : 12:38:39
I like the name Ashley

And if this is a question from a college course, they should close the school



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X002548
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Posted - 2006-04-11 : 12:39:04
What type of database is QSAM



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blindman
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Posted - 2006-04-11 : 12:50:33
quote:
Originally posted by AskSQLTeam

Ashley writes "The worldwide web is an example of what kind of database?"

Little-known secret: It's an MS Access application.
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Srinika
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Posted - 2006-04-11 : 13:19:50
quote:
Originally posted by blindman

quote:
Originally posted by AskSQLTeam

Ashley writes "The worldwide web is an example of what kind of database?"

Little-known secret: It's an MS Access application.



I disagree :

MS Access Application is not WorlWide, its only for North part of the world (North Wind) or about those who Drink Beer (Pubs) a lot



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twhelan1
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Posted - 2006-04-11 : 16:15:30
I think I remember a similar question in a class I took in college, on a quiz, maybe the second day of class, after the concept of what is a database was introduced. Though, I think it was more true or false i.e. The world wide web is a form of a database. True or False?

Not that even that was a good question, but it was an Oracle course

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Michael Valentine Jones
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Posted - 2006-04-11 : 21:46:16
Is the world wide web in 3rd normal form?


I really hope Fabian Pascal doesn't see this thread.





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Kristen
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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 02:09:08
"The world wide web is a form of a database. True or False?"

Reminds me of the "Do you understand Einsteins Law of Relativity - answer Yes or No"

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spirit1
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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 04:30:57
yeah but what do you answer to that question??
it is and it isn't...

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Srinika
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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 08:28:59
quote:
Originally posted by Michael Valentine Jones

Is the world wide web in 3rd normal form?
CODO ERGO SUM



Only the countries in "3rd World" are in 3rd Normal Form

"Others" Abnormal form

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twhelan1
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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 09:10:06
Yeah, I don't think it was a question with regards to relational databases... it's a database in the same sense that a paper ledger is a database or an Excel file is a database, more like "Yes, it's a database in the broadest and most general sense of the word, in that it stores mass amounts of data and when used correctly one can query it to find information... and p0rn." I don't recall if I got high marks in that class...

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madhivanan
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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 09:32:37
quote:
Originally posted by AskSQLTeam

Ashley writes "The worldwide web is an example of what kind of database?"


Where did you get this question?

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Kristen
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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 11:57:34
"Where did you get this question?"

He's a tutor and looking for answers to compare against his student's efforts, so he knows which ones Yahoooogled the answer!!
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jen
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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 22:48:27
google is indeed my bestfriend
http://smithsonian.yahoo.com/timeline.html
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/book/chap1/web_hist.html

wow... so it's just a huge directory but a directory must have some database system to store the links unless they're embedded and nobody can determine who used which database system first...
i knew i shouldn't have skipped classes

time to dig up, curiosity getting the best of me

--after a minute or so

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/firstpages.shtml

is this it? amazing...


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