Re: Resiliency To New Data Requirements

> > Would you consider the relational method of representing things to be
> > more general than the hierarchal method? If so, why?
>
> Yes, I would. Hierarchies only allow one to use a single organizational
> scheme; relations allow as many as are necessary...
>
> Another difference: hierarchies have only the single way of indicating
> a relationship between two kinds of things ...
> Relations have no trouble with many-to-many relationships.

Would you say, it is impossible to represent, query, manage, etc some data with one particular data model (ie hierarchal) vs another (ie relational)? Received on Mon Aug 07 2006 - 04:04:14 CEST