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Great analogy. Works well, Buck.
Two places I think the SQL approach works especially well are when the
user can't quite remember the exact name (is it 'Farm & Beauty Store' or
'_The_ Farm & Beauty Store''?), or when the desired records are not
contiguous, like when someone says "Give me our sales in Montana for
last week in order by city."
I'd make one other comment that I believe is important to an RPG
programmer's decision - I avoided SQL for a very long time, figuring it
was a tad too confusing and intimidating for a joe-the-plumber kind of
programmer like me. I was astonished how quickly basic pieces fell into
place. There are a lot of programs you can write without ever worrying
about inner joins, left outer joins, dynamic SQL, and many of the other
phrases that, frankly, scared me.
On 12/15/2016 6:38 AM, Buck Calabro wrote:
... The card catalogue. We have a sorted list, the user sticks her finger into the list starting... here... and she manually searches each card from that point on to see if it's The One. SQL is more like asking the librarian to pick out the 5 books that meet my criteria and letting me choose among that small, filtered list. ...
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