https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2010/09/14/table-no-such-thing/ Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:39:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2010/09/14/table-no-such-thing/#comment-1405 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:39:42 +0000 http://blogs.lobsterpot.com.au/?p=2750#comment-1405 I am in favor of "piles" or "messes" over the word "Heap".
When I first started learning database internals, the word "heap" reminded me of my analysis of algorithms days, where the word "heap" refers to a tree-based data structure used for heapsort…
Why they SQL Server would store unordered data as those types of "heaps" was very confusing to me.
"Messes" is better. If you want to start a campaign, I’ll be the first one to sign the petition

]]> https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2010/09/14/table-no-such-thing/#comment-1404 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:08:23 +0000 http://blogs.lobsterpot.com.au/?p=2750#comment-1404 No – heaps aren’t all bad. They’re just indexes ordered by the rowid.

]]> https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2010/09/14/table-no-such-thing/#comment-1403 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:51:45 +0000 http://blogs.lobsterpot.com.au/?p=2750#comment-1403 While heaps don’t have indexes, I think your points can stand after we stop calling them "heaps" and start calling them "piles" or "messes" (and not tables).

]]> https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2010/09/14/table-no-such-thing/#comment-1402 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:27:30 +0000 http://blogs.lobsterpot.com.au/?p=2750#comment-1402 Yes – exactly. 🙂

]]> https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2010/09/14/table-no-such-thing/#comment-1401 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:48:14 +0000 http://blogs.lobsterpot.com.au/?p=2750#comment-1401 That’s awesome! Spoofing the Matrix:
"Don’t try to look up information in the table. That’s impossible. Only try to realize the truth."
"What’s that?"
"There is no table."

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