Adjetivo
Resembling or characteristic of a database.
Uso- informal
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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.
A large class of what we might call “databasey” applications implement some form of caching.
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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.
In that spirit, this concluding Excel chapter provides a tour of some of the “databasey” things Excel can do with data.
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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.
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.
Sorting is kind of a databasey thing, so select a block of cells in your document that contains a table of information, such as names, addresses, or any other type of data that appears in a table.
It’s an impressive list of features, even the weird-sounding databasey stuff that developers only hear about as they congregate around the Jolt cooler at work.
JOHN: […] I think you made a mistake, though, on the getClient and setClient methods. 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.
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!
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. Maybe it’s a language-sim glitch.