In article <581dab49-e6b0-4fea-915c-4a41fa887...@p7g2000pre.googlegroups.com>, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First you must figure out how to structure data -- jargon is > normalization. After that you can look at transactions, ACID, > distribution and all the other good stuff. And when you're all done with that, you can start unlearning everything you've learned about normalization (not that you shouldn't learn about it in the first place, just that you should also learn when excessive normalization is a bad thing). And then start looking at BASE (Basic Availability, Soft-state, Eventually consistent) as an alternative to ACID. Don't get me wrong. SQL is a powerful tool, and truly revolutionized the database world. Anybody who is thinking about going into databases as a career needs to know SQL. But, it's not the end of the road. There is life after SQL, and that's worth exploring too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
