Re: Looking for a discussion about generic datamodels

From: VC <boston103_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:12:14 -0400
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"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1125693303.002124.51290_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> vc wrote:
>> Marshall Spight wrote:
>>
>> > Can you point me at any further reading about this?
>>
>> http://www.vldb.org/conf/2004/IND1P2.PDF
>
> Glancing over this paper, it occurs to me there are
> significant issues around the ability to statically type
> this operator.
>

Right.

> Rows are not known statically; columns must be. To transform
> row values into columns therefor raises some issues.
>

To put it mildly.

>
> Marshall
>
Received on Fri Sep 02 2005 - 16:12:14 CDT