My old boss, who was trying to build a commission tracking system in a flat-file database, couldn't understand what I was talking about when I was trying to explain relational databases. When he got it, it was like the lights were turned on.
One of the great computing innovations, indeed.
My old boss, who was trying to build a commission tracking system in a flat-file database, couldn't understand what I was talking about when I was trying to explain relational databases. When he got it, it was like the lights were turned on.There are a fair number of programmers, unfortunately, who simply can't envision relational data, and try to shoehorn everything into a flat-file format.