Re: IDJIT! Your Data Model Can't Posssibly Work!

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 19 Apr 2006 16:25:37 -0700
Message-ID: <1145489136.963464.207230@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

>>> If the unlikely, the improbably and even the impossible should be allowed to be stored, RM, ORM, ER, UML, [etc] can go out the window.
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>>:) Will all the humans alive fit through that window?
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> How many humans are built around a predefined data model?

Actually this is like the schema deal earlier. The data model that humans (including their brain) are built around is either very general or none exist. The closer the generalness of a schema or data model approaches infinity, the closer they get to no longer existing.

> > In RM, the correct answer is, there is such a schema but it is highly impractical.
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> Ah, the grand EAV design. Yes, I've seen it.

I don't assert it is EAV. Received on Wed Apr 19 2006 - 18:25:37 CDT