Re: Lookup Tables, the right way?

From: x <x_at_not-exists.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:48:28 +0200
Message-ID: <dv95ve$m81$1@emma.aioe.org>

"Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message news:Y7URf.7381$dy4.2276_at_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?

Too much TV ? Received on Wed Mar 15 2006 - 07:48:28 CST