Re: Units of Measurement in the Database Model

From: Daniel Dudley <dudley_at_online.no>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:34:17 GMT
Message-ID: <tcLu8.501$2E.16022@news2.ulv.nextra.no>

"David J. Aronson" wrote in message
news:3CBB21D5.DD95CDAD_at_att.net...
> "John R. Lewis" wrote:

[snipped]
> > 3) UOM Lookup Table in the Data Model
> ...
> > PRO
> ...
> > * Smaller Database size
>
> I don't see how. The overhead of recording each record's
> UOM along with a reference to that record, must be larger
> than not recording it.

Note that he stated Lookup Table, which implies that only units registered in that table may be entered in other UOM columns in othert tables.

Daniel Received on Mon Apr 15 2002 - 20:34:17 CDT