Sorry to start off topic: To Javier:
Most RDBMS systems use the concept of rows and columns. Though there are many that are object-oriented, or schema-less, or key-value pair oriented, most real applications are running in one of these: Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc... All of those use the row-column paradigm. If you go to the original paper written by E.F. Codd that "gave birth" to RDBMS, you'll see that they come from set theory, and the terms used in that paper were described in terms of rows and columns. Going back to Mike's original question, I agree with the answer from Daniel Roseman. Regards, Jhovanny -----Original Message----- From: django-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:django-us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Javier Guerra Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:04 AM To: django-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to refer to a data item? On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:04 AM, adelaide_mike <mike.ro...@internode.on.net> wrote: > as a database developer for many years I am used to a world > populated by rows and columns. just curious, what kind of database uses 'rows and columns'? all SQL databases use 'records and fields', while other kinds might use 'keys and values', or 'documents', or maybe a 'forest of objects'... -- Javier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
