Re: Just one more anecdote
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 1 Aug 2005 19:35:29 -0700
Message-ID: <1122950129.251571.66670_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
> ERD has never appealed to me because it seemed to be trying to make
> something easy that was in fact already easy. Because it was trying to
> make something more easy, it had to introduce elements that masked reality,
> such as a M:M relationship that masks a cross-reference table. What's the
> point? The x-ref itself is sometimes useful for direct querying, so why
> not show it?
Date: 1 Aug 2005 19:35:29 -0700
Message-ID: <1122950129.251571.66670_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Kenneth Downs wrote:
>
> ERD has never appealed to me because it seemed to be trying to make
> something easy that was in fact already easy. Because it was trying to
> make something more easy, it had to introduce elements that masked reality,
> such as a M:M relationship that masks a cross-reference table. What's the
> point? The x-ref itself is sometimes useful for direct querying, so why
> not show it?
Great post! This does a bang-up job of articulating something I've been feeling but unable to put into words for a while.
Marshall Received on Tue Aug 02 2005 - 04:35:29 CEST