Re: Compare Thee to a Database

["Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM>]

At 03:43 PM 7/1/97 -0400, Matthew J Long wrote:
>...I am attempting explain databases to a non-technical
>audience using simple metaphors, but my creativity is coming up a little
>dry.

Maybe about four years ago, Bonni Graham and I did the same
metaphore search for an end-user database app. Here are some
that we came up with for database/record/field

forest/tree/leaf -- already used by Forest & Trees
                        if they're still in business

cookie jar/cookie/choc chip

then the ideas got more bizzar, so I won't mention them here!  ;-)

and there was one suggested by a techwr-l listmember -- I don't
remember who...

barn/haystack/needle  ;-)

But ultimately, we stuck with the old stand-by of

filing cabinet/file folder/paper

It's boring, but it works.


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