Re: More on Database cells, and other terminology

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:55:26 GMT
Message-ID: <Os68g.5548$A26.142417@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Alfredo Novoa wrote:

>>Bob Badour wrote:

>>Other than syntax, how does that differ from a view or a snapshot?

>
> It differs from a view on that it is not derived from another logical
> table. But this is an irrelevant difference.

I was headed more for: "it combines physical and logical concerns", which is relevant. If one were to separate the physical and logical concerns, I don't think it would differ at all from a base relation.

I certainly have no objection to deriving an attribute for a base relation from other physically stored data. Received on Tue May 09 2006 - 14:55:26 CDT