Re: More on Database cells, and other terminology

"Bill Karwin" <bill_at_karwin.com> wrote in message news:e3qdli090_at_enews3.newsguy.com...
> 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.

Sound like the Interbase builders were influenced by Datatrieve. Wasn't Starkey involved with both? Received on Tue May 09 2006 - 20:43:03 CEST