Paulo,

> Martin,
>
> From the rest of the thread I can see how willing you are (NOT) to open
> your mind to other ways of doing things. I see no point on insisting on
> showing something that you only want to deny that exists.
>
> Anyway, the fact that you see nothing wrong about having thousands of
> tables speaks for itself...

There is nothing wrong with that. Obviously, I wouldn't need thousands
of tables to store my CD-collection. That doesn't make sense. But on
larger systems, where lots of information is stored, I would rather be
afraid for systems with less than 100 tables instead of for systems with
hundreds or thousands of tables.

But that is not what I was talking about either. I was talking about
the relational model as the basis for storage, not a database design.

I am open to suggestions, I'm just not easily convinced :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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