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== Database language? ==
== Database language? ==
It seems the creator of the tasks had Oracle or SQL Server in mind. But statistical software is often used to store addresses. Even Excel is used for such data. A question then: is it allowed to simply create an empty table with such software? There is already a case: while SAS sems to be using SQL, it actually create a "classic" SAS dataset, with integrated SQL syntax. Along with SAS, R and Stata are perfectly able to store data tables, though non of them may be considered a database language. I'll add a Stata example to show this.
It seems the creator of the tasks had Oracle or SQL Server in mind. But statistical software is often used to store addresses. Even Excel is used for such data. A question then: is it allowed to simply create an empty table with such software? There is already a case: while SAS sems to be using SQL, it actually creates a "classic" SAS dataset, with integrated SQL syntax. Along with SAS, R and Stata are perfectly able to store data tables, though non of them may be considered a database language. I'll add a Stata example to show this.


[[User:Eoraptor|Eoraptor]] ([[User talk:Eoraptor|talk]]) 21:13, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
[[User:Eoraptor|Eoraptor]] ([[User talk:Eoraptor|talk]]) 21:13, 15 December 2017 (UTC)