Re: A bit of philophy about Database events
Re: A bit of philophy about Database events
- Subject: Re: A bit of philophy about Database events
- From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:47:41 -0700
Have a look at Ben's article too:
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.22/22.02/IntrotoDatabaseEvents/index.html
ES
On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:08am, Vittorio wrote:
> I've been working for decades with many SQL-compliant relational databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, to cite a few ) transferring the neat and easy syntax of SQL commands to query the DBs by means of languages as Perl, (Visual) Basic, Pascal.
> Now, being an unexperienced novice with Applescript, I'm studying it reading Applescript 1-2-3 and I'm puzzled by some definitions of database and database items in "Database events".
>
> I'm accustomed to consider a database as a collection of tables, a table as a collection of records and records as a collection of fields containing your data. Above all it is always possible to reduce the amount of stored data setting relation up among tables by connecting specific fields.
> Now it looks to me that in Applescript a database is only a simple table that you can query but in any case a table. And this even though behind the scene (e.g. in a terminal window issue "sqlite3 dbname") it fragments fields and records into relational tables, indexes them, and connect them.
>
> In a nutshell, for the final user Applescript's database events works like an Excel database.
> Am I correct?
>
> Ciao from Rome
> Vittorio
>
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