Re: ER Model - different answers for different join paths

In article <01bca266$03790d00$83df020a_at_wchan1>, Walton Chan <wchan1_at_rci.rogers.com> writes
>Ralph Kimball's book, 'The Data Warehouse Toolkit', indicated that one of
>the relational database myths was that there would be the same answer for
>different join paths chosen. In order words, depending on which tables you
>chose to join, the ER model will yield different answers, i.e. wrong
>answer.

Not so much a myth as a fundamental concept, I would have said.

If that is what he wrote, it will be very interesting to read an explanation in this newsgroup.

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Jeremy Rickard