Customer vs Company

[Derek Atkins]

Robert Uhl <ruhl at 4dv.net> writes:

> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> > 
> > Sure, but you can put an LDAP front-end on top of a SQL database.
> > Just translate the LDAP queries into SQL queries.
> 
> SQL is not the best solution for _every_ problem.  It has a very
> specific domain, and for those problems it is very good indeed.  I am
> not certain that an LDAP server necessarily benefits from an SQL
> back-end.

When the data is already stored in a SQL database, it's certianly
better that duplicating the data and having to somehow keep them
consistent.

-derek

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