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The Information Technology arena has no room for extremists. Use the right paradigm/methodology/tool for the job.

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I guess that's what it's all about!!!

Every technique is fine for its' specific niche

nothing more and nothing less.

Btw, a truely relational database does not know such a thing as a field or a record. It's all about column and rows . To quote Joe Celko's usual rants on the MS newsgroups :

HUGE DIFFERENCE !!!!

Frank

http://www.insidesql.de