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To: kvkkc1 who wrote (48940)	9/2/2000 1:47:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Oracle database expertise is extremely hard to come by, and if their standards are open, it doesn't seem like someone should have to have such expertise to work with it. SQL is a huge simplification from the prior hierarchial databases. There was a time when adding another selection criteria on a query... say give me all females between 25 and 30 in a particular city/state/country vs. the prior "all people" selection just plain couldn't be done. You had to reorganize your entire database to get the data out. SQL is much, much easier, but it still isn't a piece of cake - for example you need to understand null logic - that something times null = null, this is not obvious unless you have technical education... but still its a general knowledge as opposed to some specific way IMS (old IBM db) maintains data. If you want a high school student to be able to run a multi-gig database I think that will take the next academic advance in technology vs. something Oracle is going to come up with in release 9, jmo

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