Remembering 1980s Computing
Disk & Database Edition
Disk & Database Edition
Q: Why was RDBMS invented?I know that RDBMS is all about normalization and relationships. This maintains a strongly connected dataset. Today, I read that originally RDBMS was invented to reduce the footprint of data on disk. Apparently, disk was more expensive then cpu at that time. Is that true?
A: I don’t know how expensive CPU w…
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