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On 2016-02-08 09:38, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 07/02/2016 21:07, Björn Lundin wrote:
>> On 2016-02-07 01:16, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 
>>> Whether selecting desired data from a large data set is easier or
>>> faster with a
>>> DBMS or some form of Ada persistent containers is a more interesting
>>> question.
>>
>> That depends on the model amongst many things.
>> But that is not the most interesting question.
>> That one is about data openess for end users.
> 
> That suggests containers more closed than DB. This is a wrong assumption.

Yes I find SQL (DML-part) standardized enough to consider it open.
I do not see how a binary blob on disk can be called open,
unless there is a way to query it.



> SQL is a language, so they are programmers. 
Most economist that are good in Excel can handle Visual Basic for
Applications too.
So, perhaps, in a sense they are programmers.


>But in my world no customer
> writes SQL queries.
In my world they do. Not all, but some.


> It is just to many DBs, too many tables and too much
> data for a customer to learn an handle.

And sometimes they want to cross-reference with other systems.
Kind of difficult to put that on one vendor.


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Björn