• To: "Peter J. Gale" <thesemanticweb@y...>,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Caught napping!
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:38:23 -0500
• In-reply-to: <20011109131437.21327.qmail@w...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Friday 09 November 2001 08:14 am, Peter J. Gale wrote:
> Bill, In a nutshell:
>
> No matter how many tables you put into a design, you
> can always find a need for more.
>
> A relational database can not easily evolve with the
> ever-growing needs of an internet based society.

This isn't true. You can create RDBMS schemas that are arbitrarily 
extensible. They just may not be as efficient as one might like.
The simlest schema of this ilk would be single table of 2 columns.

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