Re: Just one more anecdote
Date: 1 Aug 2005 21:08:36 -0700
Message-ID: <1122955716.329993.238290_at_g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Marshall Spight wrote:
> 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.
Just on the off chance that perhaps someday you will want to do an implementation with a different model than the one you currently use, I suggest that it really is a good idea to aim first to prepare a model without regard for the target implementation. Just a suggestion, of course.
cheers! --dawn Received on Tue Aug 02 2005 - 06:08:36 CEST