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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> comp.databases.theory -> Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)
On 2006-06-13 13:46:08 -0400, "Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> said:
> <pained>
> Table names, column names, etc. are *logical* constructs, not
> physical ones.
> </pained>
There is both a logical and physical aspect to them. The names themselves are physical entities. In a program they will be represented by strings in ASCII or UNICODE. The data modeler may have used a physical convention like T_ as a prefix to all table names and C_ as a prefix to all column names. etc. etc.
The fact that there is a many-many relationship between A and B is captured by a table with keys in it. This is -- physical.
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