Re: Lookup Tables, the right way?
From: Frank Hamersley <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:22:22 GMT
Message-ID: <i53Sf.7695$dy4.3533_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
>>michael_at_preece.net wrote:
>>
>>>In the Pick environment you can use the Pick DBMS to persist data or
>>>you can use the host OS's file system - or any other physical media,
>>>including that accessible through a relational database. Sometimes it
>>>makes sense to organise data into a two-dimensional matrix with, say,
>>>columns represting one dimension and columns the other. Sometimes it
>>>doesn't. The designer is free to choose whichever model is most
>>>logical. A willingness to be constrained to a two-dimensional model is
>>>what we call adherence to the illogical model.
>>
>>What makes you so sure it (the RM to be explicit) is two-dimensional?
>
> Too much TV ?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:22:22 GMT
Message-ID: <i53Sf.7695$dy4.3533_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
x wrote:
> "Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message
>>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 ?
Heh heh, so in the segue from MV to TV the "T" is for Trivial?
Cheers, Frank. Received on Thu Mar 16 2006 - 02:22:22 CET