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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 07:58, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Added the Databases Template {{Databases}} to the page because this page is referenced by the template and it provides useful context to the subject.
Thankyou everyone who contributed to the merge discussion. In general I focused towards a loss-less merge under procedure rather than attempting to achieve a more perfect result in terms of content. People will note somewhat of a 'wing-it technique under an In-use banner rather than pre-prepare in sandbox ... The latter can be better but also risks someone forking the main article in the interim. Wahtever in all events the result is open to normal editing rules but I'll point out the following:
In short ... article is available for normal improvements. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 12:11, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
The article states that Relational Software released the first commercial relational database in 1979. It also states that the first RDBMS sold was Multics Relational Store in 1978. If it was sold, wasn't it commercial? But, IBM sold System R to customers (Pratt & Whitney) I believe as early as 1977 and that is not even mentioned here. If they sold it, it was a supported product, therefore commercial. I'm old enough to remember that; maybe that is unfortunate :)
To be clear, I am not trying to argue here the point of who is first, you may have your own conditions for that definition. I was pointing a student at this article and then I realized that this information needs to be clarified. Maybe Relational Software/Oracle was the first to sell a significant number of copies? Maybe the definition of commercial used here needs to be stated?
Jmussman ( talk) 17:44, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
NoSQL databases were invented for a reason, but judging from this article, no such reason exists, and neither do alternative database types eg noSQL. An opportunity exists for making this article more comprehensive. FreeFlow99 ( talk) 11:07, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 September 2020 and 7 December 2020. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
LBJJames.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 07:58, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Added the Databases Template {{Databases}} to the page because this page is referenced by the template and it provides useful context to the subject.
Thankyou everyone who contributed to the merge discussion. In general I focused towards a loss-less merge under procedure rather than attempting to achieve a more perfect result in terms of content. People will note somewhat of a 'wing-it technique under an In-use banner rather than pre-prepare in sandbox ... The latter can be better but also risks someone forking the main article in the interim. Wahtever in all events the result is open to normal editing rules but I'll point out the following:
In short ... article is available for normal improvements. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 12:11, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
The article states that Relational Software released the first commercial relational database in 1979. It also states that the first RDBMS sold was Multics Relational Store in 1978. If it was sold, wasn't it commercial? But, IBM sold System R to customers (Pratt & Whitney) I believe as early as 1977 and that is not even mentioned here. If they sold it, it was a supported product, therefore commercial. I'm old enough to remember that; maybe that is unfortunate :)
To be clear, I am not trying to argue here the point of who is first, you may have your own conditions for that definition. I was pointing a student at this article and then I realized that this information needs to be clarified. Maybe Relational Software/Oracle was the first to sell a significant number of copies? Maybe the definition of commercial used here needs to be stated?
Jmussman ( talk) 17:44, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
NoSQL databases were invented for a reason, but judging from this article, no such reason exists, and neither do alternative database types eg noSQL. An opportunity exists for making this article more comprehensive. FreeFlow99 ( talk) 11:07, 28 July 2021 (UTC)