Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?
From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:54:14 +0200
Message-ID: <40bfac0d$0$15440$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.
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:54:14 +0200
Message-ID: <40bfac0d$0$15440$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Bill H wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:
>>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?