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Admin2 Note: Split from this thread from the point at which I think it drifted too far off topic


KillerB: I’m aiming to hold these in tables in a spreadsheet. But I structure the tables like those in a relational database: tables have names; columns=fields have names; and columns in one table allow lookup in another table. So the data can later be poured, with not too much difficulty, into a formal database. But that probably won’t be necessary.

jdaw1 wrote:the data can later be poured, with not too much difficulty, into a formal database.

This is intersting. I have always perceived data loading as being an action which happens in an upward direction. I am not surprised that Jdaw and I have different perceptions.

Derek T. wrote:I have always perceived data loading as being an action which happens in an upward direction.

Is your data typically stored in a remote server? If so, the ‘uploading’ of the sending might affect your perception. I try to store things locally where possible — which might affect mine.

Derek T. wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:the data can later be poured, with not too much difficulty, into a formal database.

This is intersting. I have always perceived data loading as being an action which happens in an upward direction. I am not surprised that Jdaw and I have different perceptions.

Good grief, no, "pouring into a database" is a term used by the same team that developed relational databases at Cambridge University. This team also put together the full terminology for use with said databases, culminating in the release of DB2 and the first fully functional SQL language in 1983.

Or was it the Cambridge Tiddly Winks Club? Always get the two mixed up.

Derek T. wrote:Topic-drift Alert

Nope - Topic Dreft. I was trying to wash my hands of it but couldn't find the soap, so used soap-powder instead.

KillerB wrote:

Derek T. wrote:Topic-drift Alert

Nope - Topic Dreft. I was trying to wash my hands of it but couldn't find the soap, so used soap-powder instead.

That was very funny, KillerB

Derek

PS: Do you remember what I told you by PM 2 nights ago?

Derek T. wrote:

KillerB wrote:

Derek T. wrote:Topic-drift Alert

Nope - Topic Dreft. I was trying to wash my hands of it but couldn't find the soap, so used soap-powder instead.

That was very funny, KillerB

Derek

PS: Do you remember what I told you by PM 2 nights ago?

I thought it was crap as well. Just testing.

Weirdo.

Derek T. wrote:Weirdo.

Thank you

KillerB wrote:

Derek T. wrote:Weirdo.

Thank you

It's no problem. I know you like being thought of that way.