https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&feed=atom&action=historyTalk:1250: Old Accounts - Revision history2024-03-19T03:24:47ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=293503&oldid=prevPoolloverNathan at 17:39, 25 August 20222022-08-25T17:39:52Z<p></p>
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</table>PoolloverNathanhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=204515&oldid=prevPoolloverNathan at 22:29, 12 January 20212021-01-12T22:29:00Z<p></p>
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</table>PoolloverNathanhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=75079&oldid=prevPudder at 11:16, 4 September 20142014-09-04T11:16:21Z<p></p>
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</table>Pudderhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=58993&oldid=prevJarod997: Add to DB discussion2014-01-30T14:09:10Z<p>Add to DB discussion</p>
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</table>173.245.50.84https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=58966&oldid=prevJarod997: agree with Derelict -> abandoned2014-01-29T21:24:39Z<p>agree with Derelict -> abandoned</p>
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</table>Jarod997https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=58910&oldid=prev173.245.50.84 at 13:02, 29 January 20142014-01-29T13:02:18Z<p></p>
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</table>173.245.50.84https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=54157&oldid=prevMrarch at 00:17, 3 December 20132013-12-03T00:17:30Z<p></p>
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</table>Mrarchhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=51531&oldid=prev108.162.246.117 at 02:41, 1 November 20132013-11-01T02:41:04Z<p></p>
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</table>108.162.246.117https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1250:_Old_Accounts&diff=46500&oldid=prevDgbrt at 10:27, 14 August 20132013-08-14T10:27:26Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some bullshit on the page. Not sure if it could be edited to something that makes sense, if not it probably should be erased: "''But it also may refer to databases and the query language SQL. Modern web sites are always saved in such databases and using references from one entity to an other. A entity in this context is a thing in the modeled world, in this case Cueball and his friends. By using the entity–relationship model the friends will still have a relationship to the nonexistent user Cueball, the links are orphaned.''". Problems: 1) Modern web sites tend to shift from SQL to No-SQL databases, especially sites like social networks; 2) The described behavior is not a problem in a properly designed SQL database, since absence of orphaned links is ensured by foreign constraints. [[Special:Contributions/213.251.211.65|213.251.211.65]] 07:08, 14 August 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some bullshit on the page. Not sure if it could be edited to something that makes sense, if not it probably should be erased: "''But it also may refer to databases and the query language SQL. Modern web sites are always saved in such databases and using references from one entity to an other. A entity in this context is a thing in the modeled world, in this case Cueball and his friends. By using the entity–relationship model the friends will still have a relationship to the nonexistent user Cueball, the links are orphaned.''". Problems: 1) Modern web sites tend to shift from SQL to No-SQL databases, especially sites like social networks; 2) The described behavior is not a problem in a properly designed SQL database, since absence of orphaned links is ensured by foreign constraints. [[Special:Contributions/213.251.211.65|213.251.211.65]] 07:08, 14 August 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:I disagree. At the title text Randall mentions ''a major looming problem'' belonging to databases. And all modern websites like wordpress, or even this wiki, using SQL databases in the background. No-SQL is an alternative, but still rarely used.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 10:27, 14 August 2013 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr>
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