Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:03:13 GMT
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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message:
news:40be201d$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> 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 find it interesting you should say this. All RDBMS products I've seen show data in columns and rows. In fact, that is the language of RDBMS: rows and columns.
It is not unusual, therefore, to define and describe data in a preferred layout?
Bill Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 00:03:13 CEST