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RE: use of nested tables to resolve many to many relationships

From: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) <Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:01:51 -0500
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Chris,  

I'm sure you are correct to a certain point. But, if it would take a couple of million bucks in R&D to develop & implement something with a 2% ROI, I doubt a bottom-line company like Oracle would spend that kind of capital just to be able to throw their shoulders back and say "Look at me".  

Could be wrong. I would still like to hear from anyone who uses this feature.


From: Stephens, Chris [mailto:chris_stephens_at_admworld.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:58 AM To: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR); oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: use of nested tables to resolve many to many relationships

"Oracle would not have developed this and made it available unless there were customer's asking for it."  

Sure they would...if other database vendors were coming out with similar features Oracle wouldn't want them saying 'Oh we've got object-relational features and that is the next "big" thing and so you should buy our product and ditch oracle'.  

I'm thinking that happens almost as much and user-driven 'innovations'.  

From: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
[mailto:Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:45 AM To: Stephens, Chris; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: use of nested tables to resolve many to many relationships  

I would love to hear of an application that uses nested data with an explanation of why it is preferable to the "old school" traditional approach. I have yet to see it in use in any production environment.  

Oracle would not have developed this and made it available unless there were customer's asking for it.  

Anybody use it?  


From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Stephens, Chris
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:38 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: FW: use of nested tables to resolve many to many relationships

I don't think this was intended for just me.  

From: Job Miller [mailto:jobmiller_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:33 AM To: Stephens, Chris
Subject: Re: use of nested tables to resolve many to many relationships  

stay away.. you'll be quite thankful. it is just relational anyway, and accessing them from clients and via sql becomes much more complex. you can use views to make relational data look like nested data if you really want a result set to come back that contains a row that has collection of child elements. (like a nested table)  

Job

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