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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 16:44:21 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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   It’s been a while since I played with #Cassandra. It was pretty enjoyable, but it is hard to wrap one’s mind around schema-less databases. Remember when you first learned to use random-access files in a programming language? What did you learn? That you had to firmly set a length for each record and which contents which at what locations of each record. So #MongoDB, Cass…
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 17:59:15 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     you can have schemas in Cassandra (that has been the case since at least 2011)
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 18:06:06 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman Has it really been that long? When I tried it (and I did enjoy it, if it wasn't obvious), it had no way to make one record's contents [i.e., datatypes, lengths, field order, or even fields used] match another record's contents.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 19:43:57 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     just because it existed, doesn't mean that's the version you were using...or that it was obvious how to implement
     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.