On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 02:25:57 +0000, Marshall Spight wrote:
> "Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.07.19.23.23.46.800729_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be...
>>
>> Or lists encoded in relational tables? You can do that with a simple
>> index number (hard to update like the array) or logically simulate a
>> linked list.
>
> Now *that's* interesting, although I guess I'm most interested in how
> one might implement relations so as to allow fast list operations in
> bulk.
It all depends on what type of bulk operations you had in mind and how big
your lists are. Note that if your lists are small then it is actually not
a database problem and typical database-techniques might not be very
useful. Although, lately in XML research there is an interesting mix
happening between the two. And how often will the lists be updated and
what types of updates will these be? What is your update language anyway?
Or your query language, for that matter?
Received on Tue Jul 20 2004 - 17:03:34 CDT
