[Tfug] [dmcbee at email.arizona.edu: A Seminar on Relational Data Bases and Social Research]

Choprboy choprboy at dakotacom.net
Wed Oct 7 19:15:38 MST 2009


On Wednesday 07 October 2009 17:26, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm going to be giving a primer on relational databases and thought
> that it might be of interest to some on the mailing list.  It's aimed
> at social scientists, so the examples will be social scientific in
> nature and there might be some jargon but overall the talk should be
> pretty accessible.  Most social scientists don't have any experience
> with relational databases, so it will be pretty basic stuff---theory,
> normalization, three-valued logic, review of RDBMSes (basically, MySQL
> versus Postgres and why to avoid MS Access), etc.
>
> Claude
>

Any chance it will be recorded and placed on the web somewhere publicly 
accessable?

Adrian





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