{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "Some of the example models I used in the Spreadsheet Strategies chapter could be constructed on database programs in one form or another. Likewise, some of the examples I’ll provide in this database chapter will look suspiciously like a spreadsheet application. About the only thing that makes one application more “databasey” than another is when you call the Set Database, Set Criteria, and Extract commands on the Data menu.", "ref": "1989, Danny Goodman, Gordon McComb, “Database Strategies”, in Hands-On Excel, 2nd edition, Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, →ISBN, part I (Principles for Power Users), page 136:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[316, 325]]}, {"text": "A large class of what we might call “databasey” applications implement some form of caching.", "ref": "1990, UNIX Review, volume 8, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, column 1:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[37, 46]]}, {"text": "Beginning with a roll-call, we have brand-new versions of everything — all with the “97” suffix. Word, as ever, processes text, while Excel looks after the figures, PowerPoint creates presentations, Access does databasey things, and Outlook replaces the Schedule Plus personal organiser.", "ref": "1996 December, Tim Nott, “[Sparring partners] Microsoft Office 97”, in Personal Computer World, London: VNU Business Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 170, column 1:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[211, 220]]}, {"text": "In that spirit, this concluding Excel chapter provides a tour of some of the “databasey” things Excel can do with data.", "ref": "1997 May 4, Ned Snell, “Organizing, Analyzing & Charting Data”, in The Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft Office 97, Research Triangle Park, N.C.: Ventana, →ISBN, section V (Excel), page 502:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[78, 87]]}, {"text": "Because an array is essentially a collection of stuff in a database, you can do databasey things with arrays: List them, sort them, unsort them, create bogus databases for the IRS, and so on.", "ref": "1997 May 8, Dan Gookin, “Lesson 9-1: Asking for Arrays”, in C For Dummies, volume II, Foster City, Calif.: IDG Books Worldwide, →ISBN, chapter 9 (Arrays and Strings and Things), page 622:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[80, 89]]}, {"text": "If you are used to working with spreadsheets like Excel you may feel comfortable using the datasheet. However, if you want to use something that looks and feels more ‘databasey’ (Yes, this is a highly technical term meaning like a database!) you’ll want to create forms.", "ref": "1998, Sharon J. 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You say the type is Client, but isn’t it really a string called clientID? HAL: What is clientID? JOHN: It's a column in the datab— HAL: Exactly. Purge your mind of all databasey thoughts, Grasshopper. If I’m a Storyboard and you want to know who owns me, will it really be helpful if I tell you “211154”? Nope, you want me to pull my owner out of my pocket when you say getClient.", "ref": "2004 March, Hal Helms, “Adventures in Encapsulation; Part 2: Talking OO: Learning to think in ‘objects’”, in Robert Diamond, editor, ColdFusion Developer’s Journal, volume 6, number 3, Montvale, N.J.: SYS-CON Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 1:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[254, 263]]}, {"text": "Some people like to compare Kafka to a database. It certainly comes with similar features. It provides storage; production topics with hundreds of terabytes are not uncommon. It has a SQL interface that lets users define queries and execute them over the data held in the log. These can be piped into views that users can query directly. It also supports transactions. These are all things that sound quite “databasey” in nature!", "ref": "2018 March 28, Ben Stopford, “Kafka Is Like a Database?”, in Designing Event-Driven Systems: Concepts and Patterns for Streaming Services with Apache Kafka, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly, →ISBN, page 15:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[408, 417]]}, {"text": "He’s developing a databasey sense of humor, and has just reached the brainy-four-year-old level—or he’s malfunctioning in some way, but I can’t put my finger on how. 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