On 01/10/2019 10:54, xxxxxx@ancell-ent.com wrote:

>> In which case, I'm afraid to say, option (2) offers only rather poor
>> access to JDBC databases.
>
> That was a suggested, but discarded option, for reasons like you
> enumerate in your following snipped comments.

Phew!

> Looking at them one way, both JDBC and MariaDB CONNECT are ways of
> allowing sdbi to access more "databases" than the ones we'll be
> (eventually) supplying more direct methods for.  Scare quotes if
> you don't consider a CSV file to be a database.  Users can choose
> either if both for example support a serious database like Db2,
> but JDBC will be suggested option.

To be precise, I'd consider a CSV file perfectly eligible to be part of
a database. Some people have tried to draw some lines in the sand and
define "what is a database" - eg, ACID properties - but this usually
just encodes their prejudices, and inspires others to find useful ways
to store data that sits outside of that definition...

>
> - Harold
>

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