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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 4112444, member: 99239&quot;]Chris - so why DO you use it if it&#039;s torture? </p><p><br /></p><p>Ed - Thanks you so much for this detailed response. I took a brief look at the link to the SPARQL query examples and the query structure is very similar to MySQL (which is likely far more commonly used). In your opinion is there a clear advantage between the two technologies?</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I think for most of us what we care about is the front end. ANS (and OCRE) are downright user hostile as far as I&#039;m concerned. The frustration that prompted this thread came from trying to do a lookup on coins of Delmatius. ANS inexplicably returned all of three records while OCRE retrieved zero. Obviously, I <b>must </b>be doing something wrong..... but that&#039;s sort of my whole point. How hard should it be to find records this simple? It makes all the filtering options meaningless.</p><p><br /></p><p>In your response though you bring up an interesting possibility: I agree that there&#039;s nothing quite like querying the database directly. That&#039;s like having God Mode enabled. However, I think (I could be wrong) that putting it out there for anyone to use poses serious security threats. I exaggerate but you can see how someone might be tempted to enter, say, something like SELECT * FROM user_passwords. Even if you could lock the backend tables a poorly scripted query can literally crash the server. Is there a safe way to implement this that can somehow keep an eye on the CPU usage?</p><p><br /></p><p>I just checked out Zeno.ru. It looks like it&#039;s exclusively from Islam westwards. I&#039;m so happy these civs are getting some attention. I felt guilty about deep-sixing them for lack of knowledge and perceived interest. If this is your area of focus I don&#039;t have much to offer but both tantaluscoins.com and coryssa.org have record comments enabled in the Greco-Roman world side of things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again - I hope to see more comments!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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