Re: TRM - Morbidity has set in, or not?

"Paul Mansour" <paul_at_carlislegroup.com> wrote in message news:1147749726.748210.42350_at_j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Bob, I'm sure I'm missing something, but I can't see it. If it
> wouldn't be too much trouble, would you or J M Davitt give me a small
> example? Or maybe you can correct mine:
>
> Condider, as in Davitt's example above, a Date domain D that enumerates
> all the possible dates (leave it a 5 days for the example):
>
> D <-> 2006-01-01 2006-01-02 2006-01-03 2006-01-04 2006-01-05
>
> and a single relation with two columns Date-of-Birth (DOB) and
> Expiration date (EXP) with indices pointing to D:
>
> ID <-> 1 2 3 4
> DOB <-> 3 2 5 4
> EXP <-> 1 5 5 3

> Are the columns stored like this in TRM? If not, how are they stored?
> If they are stored like this, what advantage is there to pointing to D
> instead of just storing actual date values in DOB and EXP?

Have you read the patent ?
How you store the relation is the whole problem. The patent is supposed to give you all the details you cannot figure out by yourself (full disclosure). Received on Tue May 16 2006 - 09:19:43 CEST