Perhaps I can illustrate this idea with an example.
A typical Product's relation design may include the product master,
Brand, Subbrand, Brand Extension etc. What happens if we don't define
Brand, Subbrand, Brand Extension etc but instead create a structure
such that these kind of relationships can be "soft coded" so to speak.
I have always felt that the relation model tend to represent what is
current and lacks the flexibility of self-changing, sort of like the
OS's self tuning...That was the idea of our design. Let's face it,
the pace of change in the current business world is fast and changing
a DB model is slow, relatively speaking.
Received on Sat Jul 26 2003 - 20:35:10 CDT
