Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!thewolery.demon.co.uk!wol From: "Anthony W. Youngman" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Pizza Example Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 01:18:00 +0100 Organization: vinny-puch Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4VepeiOAddcAFws+@thewolery.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: "Anthony W. Youngman" NNTP-Posting-Host: thewolery.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1081297176 26315 158.152.222.21 (7 Apr 2004 00:19:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:19:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Turnpike/6.02-U () Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.theory:25081 In message , Tony writes >> Anyway, who says the Pick approach is unstructured? If you go back to >> Dawn's original output, surely that is very similar to a relational >> view, ie it's structured in a manner you understand? >> >> More to the point, it's structured in a manner the database can >> understand, which isn't the case if the information is scattered across >> multiple tables :-) > >What makes you say that? The DBMS can 100% understand the data >"scattered" across multiple tables with appropriate constraints >defined. 100%. Does the database understand that all these tables refer to the same real-world object? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports as Lies-to-People. The Science of Discworld : (c) Terry Pratchett 1999