Re: Lookup Tables, the right way?

From: Frank Hamersley <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:54:16 GMT
Message-ID: <Y7URf.7381$dy4.2276@news-server.bigpond.net.au>

michael_at_preece.net wrote:
> In the Pick environment you can use the Pick DBMS to persist data or
> you can use the host OS's file system - or any other physical media,
> including that accessible through a relational database. Sometimes it
> makes sense to organise data into a two-dimensional matrix with, say,
> columns represting one dimension and columns the other. Sometimes it
> doesn't. The designer is free to choose whichever model is most
> logical. A willingness to be constrained to a two-dimensional model is
> what we call adherence to the illogical model.

What makes you so sure it (the RM to be explicit) is two-dimensional?

Cheers, Frank. Received on Wed Mar 15 2006 - 06:54:16 CST