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From: garyp@cognos.uucp (Gary Puckering)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: chest thumping
Message-ID: <853@smokey.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 09:25:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: smokey.853
Posted: Tue Jun  9 09:25:50 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jun-87 05:44:40 EDT
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Reply-To: garyp@smokey.UUCP (Gary Puckering)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <959@killer.UUCP> tony@killer.UUCP writes:
>I know that when I have a problem that I will find a work-around faster than
>I could post to the net.

Great!  How about sharing your knowledge with the rest of us -- could
save me (and many others) loads of time.

Apart from that, identifying problems that are of a generic nature
(such as problems with the degree-3 consistency model in on-line
applications) are of interest to everyone:  vendors (because maybe
their engineers can find a practical solution), researchers (because
maybe new theories, algorithms, etc. are needed), and users (because
they should know what they are getting into beforehand).

It is amazing how many experienced DP professionals have "bought in"
to relational technology because of all the hype, with little real
knowledge or experience with that technology.  Lets make this a forum
where strengths and weaknesses of different database systems can be
discussed openly.  I'm sure we all have something to learn.
-- 
Gary Puckering        3755 Riverside Dr.
Cognos Incorporated   Ottawa, Ontario       decvax!utzoo!dciem!
(613) 738-1440        CANADA  K1G 3N3       nrcaer!cognos!garyp