Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?

In message <40be201d$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>, mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> writes
>Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
>
>> It think it is worth noting that is far more difficult to retrieve an
>> invoice the way it looked originally after chopping it up
>
>You chopped it up. Why?
>
>While chopping it up, you got rid of the layout.
>What you will retrieve is the data, not the layout.
>Now if you also have some markup for the abstract invoice,
>you can just fit the invoice-data you retrieved into the
>invoice-markup.
>
>I would think you would know all this, if
>it was not so that over and over you blame
>
>> (that 1NF thing again)
>
>for these non-problems.
>
>> and then using SQL to show the invoice again.
>
>SQL reports are ugly - I'ld would not want to
>show one to a customer.
>Use a tool that was designed to present data.

THAT WAS MY POINT! The tool is external to the database ...

Thanks for proving it :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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