Re: More on Database cells, and other terminology

Bob Badour wrote:
> More important is the ignorant assertion that the dbms cannot derive
> data, which is exactly what views do.

There is also a sort of column-level view concept in InterBase/Firebird.   You can define a column and in place of the datatype you say "COMPUTED BY" and give an expression, which may reference other columns in the table. You can do the same thing in any individual query, but this virtual column is stored in the schema.

Regards,
Bill K. Received on Tue May 09 2006 - 10:49:07 CDT