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brainstorming -- relational database for reference positions

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Tuesday, 1 March 2011, at 10:43 p.m.

In Response To: brainstorming -- relational database for reference positions (Phil Simborg)

If there were a database of reference positions, I would like to see them not only by score, cube position etc., but also divided by some of the criteria above. And yes, this would be TREMENDOUSLY helpful if it could be accessed quickly and easily.

That's the beauty of today's relational databases. If well designed (and they can be modified as new ideas become available, of course), you can put as much information in them as you (or anyone else) desires with minimal overhead. Plus, if you want to search one way and I want to search another, we BOTH get to do that (even simultaneously) with the same database. Speed is also one of their attributes, assuming you know the search method/techniques and choose your search criteria semi-wisely. (I mean you could ask the DB to print out every position and go through them by hand, but that wouldn't be a very wise activity. :) Part of the search technique is to tell it what you want to see and thus ignore the info tied to that position that you don't want to see.

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