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

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> "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > When I built a "data mart" in Oracle as a star schema, I included all the
> > primary and foreign key constraints, even though it slowed down loading.
> > The advantage came when I went to copy the star into Cognos (Impromptu or
> > Power Play, I forget)
> > Both Cognos and the Oracle optimizer recognized my star schema for what it
> > was, and made appropriate use of that fact.
>
> You were lucky.

Yes, and the harder he works on database design, the luckier he gets ;-) Received on Tue Jun 15 2004 - 22:48:24 CEST