Laconic2 wrote:
>> Quick segue: do you mean this is a problem when stored permanently, or
> when
>> it appears as something prepared for human consumption? or both?
>
> This is actually a very important question. There are times and places
> when crosstabulation is of the essence when data is being prepared for
> human
> consumption. Witness the use of pivot tables in Excel, or conversion
> into
> multidimensional form for OLAP. I'm not objecting to crosstabulating data
> in that environment, at all.
>
>
> I'm referring to data stored in an RDBMS in crosstabulated form, and then
> being retrieved with SQL, and being processed with some kind of procedural
> language. What a pain that is.
I figured as much, but wanted to be sure.
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Received on Fri Nov 05 2004 - 11:23:53 CST
