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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of SQL
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:21:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:55:35 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> SQL and flat-file DBs are kind of the all-gobbling monsters.
> 
> But MV is still the better, saner, way to organize many kinds of
> data.

The trouble with unnormalized fields is: how do you do updates? You have 
to delete all the values and insert them all again.