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Re: Problem creating a series of tables

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Erwin Moller wrote:

> On 3/31/2015 10:19 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> Actually, I've always heard the terms "rows" and "columns", ever since
>> my first introduction to SQL databases around 30 years ago.  Even the
>> documentation talks about table rows and columns, not records and fields.
> 
> Thanks for making a point about that. I strongly prefer rows and columns
> too.
> 
> I first encountered "records and fields" when working with Microsoft
> Classic ASP/VB and their adodb drivers to Access. (And Collections and
> Items, arrrgh, what a syntactic mess they created.)
> Maybe PHPMyAdmin borrowed from MS.
> 
> And I fully agree with your statement: we don't need more synonyms.
> 
> Why is it people like to invent new words/meanings for concepts that
> already exists? To confuse the hell out of us all?

To me, a row and a record are synonymous, as are rows and recordsets, 
respectively.  However, I think of a field rather as an element of a row or 
column, like a table cell, so that for a table with 42 rows/records a column 
has 42 fields.  Likewise, if that table has 23 columns, each row has 23 
fields (because it is an *relational* database; for an object-oriented 
database the number and kind of fields, or properties, can vary).

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Problem creating a series of tables richard <noreply@example.com> - 2015-03-31 12:14 -0400
  Re: Problem creating a series of tables Paul Herber <paul@pherber.com> - 2015-03-31 19:09 +0100
    Re: Problem creating a series of tables richard <noreply@example.com> - 2015-03-31 14:30 -0400
  Re: Problem creating a series of tables Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-03-31 19:40 +0000
    Re: Problem creating a series of tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-03-31 16:19 -0400
      Re: Problem creating a series of tables Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2015-03-31 18:07 -0700
        Re: Problem creating a series of tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-03-31 21:23 -0400
      Re: Problem creating a series of tables Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2015-04-01 12:19 +0200
        Re: Problem creating a series of tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-02 15:23 +0200
          Re: Problem creating a series of tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-02 10:17 -0400
    Re: Problem creating a series of tables richard <noreply@example.com> - 2015-03-31 20:14 -0400
      Re: Problem creating a series of tables Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2015-04-01 02:44 +0000
        Re: Problem creating a series of tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-03-31 23:06 -0400
          Re: Problem creating a series of tables richard <noreply@example.com> - 2015-04-01 00:09 -0400
            Re: Problem creating a series of tables Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2015-04-01 20:37 +0000
              Re: Problem creating a series of tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-01 17:08 -0400
    Re: Problem creating a series of tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-02 14:50 +0200
      Re: Problem creating a series of tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-02 10:20 -0400
        Re: Problem creating a series of tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-02 22:32 +0200
          Re: Problem creating a series of tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-03 00:44 +0200
            Re: Problem creating a series of tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-02 19:22 -0400
            Re: Problem creating a series of tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-02 19:24 -0400
            Re: Problem creating a series of tables "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-04-03 01:46 +0200
              Re: Problem creating a series of tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-03 20:45 +0200
          Re: Problem creating a series of tables Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2015-04-02 15:59 -0700
            Re: Problem creating a series of tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-03 01:10 +0200
              Re: Problem creating a series of tables Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2015-04-02 18:44 -0700

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