Managing Google Groups headaches

rusi rustompmody at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 08:32:35 EST 2013


On Friday, December 6, 2013 6:49:04 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:03 AM, rusi wrote:
> > SQL databases (assuming thats the mediawiki backend) is another -- ok for
> > data-structuring bad for presentation.

> No, SQL databases don't store structured text. MediaWiki just stores a
> single blob (not in the database sense of that word) of text.

I guess we are using 'structured' in different ways.  All I am saying
is that mediawiki which seems to present as html, actually stores its
stuff as SQL -- nothing more or less structured than the schemas here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_architecture#Database_and_text_storage



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