Re: Robert -- Re: OT: End Note ?

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"
 on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:41:49 -0400


> Robert Holmgren wrote:

>> Can't you just filch the database structure that one of these
>> programs has already devised?

> Sure. IF one could find it. I've been looking through the files
> that constitute Ibid for Xy and can find nothing that looks like
> a database structure.

I'm not suggesting to steal the ACTUAL database! I simply mean,
find out what data is recorded -- what the fields are. What
info, in short, needs to be recorded. Then just mimic that. If
you want separate databases for journals, books, publishers,...
big deal. This is just not difficult! Web searching is
difficult; this is simple stuff. Just a lot of grunt work.

> I'm wondering if ANYONE
> understands database theory anymore

Bah! Humbug. There are super duper databases out there.
PostGRES is phenomenal.

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Robert Holmgren
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