Re: Representing Student Activity Score

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 21 Jul 2004 20:06:26 -0700
Message-ID: <4b45d3ad.0407211906.7081cfe2_at_posting.google.com>


> > Has anyone a better method of representing the above using only
> > Subject-Verb-Object (Tuple-Attribute-Value) format?
>
> The name is actually EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value)

Thanks

> and it is an awful way to handle data. It prevents data integrity runs like
> glue and is a nightmare to use. Try using a relational model instead.

Could you show how to explicity represent the following info in RM:

john take test.
john get 95.

(john get 95) for (john take test).

T_Thing
john
take
test
get
95
for

T_SVO
Subject Verb Object

->john  ->take ->test
->john  ->get  ->95
?       ->for   ?
Received on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 05:06:26 CEST

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