Re: Database design
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:54:54 +0200
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"Alexandr Savinov" <spam_at_conceptoriented.com> wrote in message
news:43faef30$1_at_news.fhg.de...
> x schrieb:
> > "Alexandr Savinov" <spam_at_conceptoriented.com> wrote in message
> > news:43f9ec1d$1_at_news.fhg.de...
> >> Roy Hann schrieb:
> >
> >>> I think you are reading something that was never written. The phrase
> > that
> >>> was written was "a relational database, with its flat tables".
> >
> >> Yes, I misinterpreted that statement. Anyway, qualifying tables as
> >> having a flat structure is not far from truth.
> >
> > Only the surface is flat, not the structure.
>
> So what is non-flat in tables? I mean tables defined as consisting of a
> sequence of columns and a set of rows. Do not add links and other
> information that can be stored in its cells.
Of what use is a relation if one do not "add" information in its "cells" ? There is no such thing as a relation with empty "cells" ! The "cells" are the relation. Received on Tue Feb 21 2006 - 12:54:54 CET