Re: Is supertyping orthadox?

On 21 Mar 2001 23:29:32 GMT, Todd Gillespie <toddg_at_linux127.ma.utexas.edu> wrote:
>Aside from that, I wonder about the solution that stared this thread. I
>wrote a meta-schema with some supertyping facilities, but not as much, nor
>as rigidly, as the consultants. The major complaints sound like an
>inability to define constraints, triggers, & relations. Are these the
>result of breaking the relational model, or that the consulant's tools are
>weekend hacks (and lack mature options)?

Well, if they were *mature* by that measure, they would duplicate a standard relational database. And, what would the point be of that?

Thanks for asking, I'll tell you.

They have never heard of doing analysis and design for applications. They don't know their entities from their domains.

They probably load the entire database into RAM in some middle-tier anyway, should probably implement their meta-schema in flat files anyway.

Joshua Stern
JRStern_at_gte.net Received on Thu Mar 22 2001 - 01:18:30 CET