Re: A good argument for XML

From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 15 Jul 2005 10:09:47 -0700
Message-ID: <1121447387.600269.256810@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

arthernan_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> >> event
> >> participant
> >> agenda
> >> survey_headings
> >> ce_data
> >> faculty
> >> participant
> >
> >So you have several tables, and the join graph is a tree? Nothing
> >special here.
>
> I don't think you are giving me the benefit of the doubt. I'll be more
> specific. An event in our database is a class held in a hotel or like.
> Each participant gets a packet with several pages which include an
> agenda, a participant list, faculty, CE forms, a survey form and this
> is probably just a third of the current contents of the report.
>
> Now how many roundtrips? We have classes of 300 people so you do the
> math.

I didn't quite follow that. Could you be specific? You have one roundtrip per? Participant, event, which?

Marshall Received on Fri Jul 15 2005 - 12:09:47 CDT