Dragaera

Dragaeran memory

Thu Feb 13 14:20:28 PST 2003

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Andrew Lias wrote:

@> >As for the idea of the Dzur
@> >Mountain Storage Device I suggested previously, it's just a pet theory.
@> >I like it, but it has no more weight than any other theories regarding
@> >Dzur Mountain.
@> 
@> I'm personally fond of it because I'm a database administrator.  I can just 
@> picture Sethre deciding whether or not a particular set of memories should 
@> have a clustered index or not. :-)

Sethra closed her eyes, as if having trouble remembering.

***
SELECT DISTINCT a.name as from, b.name as to, isenemy.status
  FROM dzurmt.memory, dzurmt.isenemy, dzurmt.person a, dzurmt.person b
  WHERE a.id=isenemy.fromid
    AND b.id=isenemy.toid
    AND memory.id=isenemy.memoryid
    AND memory.time BETWEEN start(reign('Tortaalik')) AND start('Interregnum');

>FROM     TO                     STATUS
...
'Sethra' 'Adron'                'getting along'
'Sethra' 'Sorceress in Green'   'getting along'
'Adron'  'Sorceress in Green'   'not especially close'
...
***

Then she said, "We all got along in those days. Adron was never
especially close to the sorceress, though."