[LA.pm] July Meeting?

Mike Frager mfrager at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 10:41:49 PDT 2011


7/20 would be good for me also.

Vertical tables are like taking a regular SQL tables (a horizontal database)
and turning them on their side. Columns become entire rows, and rows become
groups of rows. By doing this you can change the schema on the fly.

It's likely something you may have seen before, but under a different name.
Usually worth a look though. Since I first learned about it, it has greatly
helped how I think about databases.


-Mike Frager


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
<merlyn at stonehenge.com>wrote:

> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Frager <mfrager at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Mike> I'm interested in going to this months meeting if there's going to
> Mike> be one!
>
> I could be at a 7/20 meeting as well.
>
> Mike> If no one else has anything to present, I have a simple
> Mike> presentation on vertical tables I keep up my sleeve that I'd be
> Mike> willing to share.
>
> What are "vertical tables"?
>
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