As a way to at least keep me writing, I am starting a links of the week category of post, that I expect to be a weekly staple. Links can cover just about any issue I find interesting, from technology to politics. So, let’s start. My favorite link of the week is Derek Colley’s Compare Big...
Tag: Relational Databases
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Set thinking
It’s quite frequent to read about the efficiency of relational database systems when executing set based operations. Relational DBMSs are, indeed, efficient when executing set based operations especially when compared to cursor based operations. Of course, the debate can become quite heated, leading some people to excommunicate cursor based operations as the devil incarnate of inefficiency. As in...