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

Eric Gearhart eric at nixwizard.net
Fri Oct 9 17:38:56 MST 2009


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>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
>
>
I might be interested in going... do I just show up at the right place at
the right time? Where is the social sciences building by the way?

--
Eric
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