Re: Generalised approach to storing address details

Neo wrote:

> > I would imagine that the answer to this lies in the fact that once one
> > employs EAV one is no longer using the RM as the logical model, but
> > rather merely as storage device for a different model (a ternary one at
> > that).
> >
> > This is something that also befuddles the semantic web people, who
> > confuse the fact that just because they can represent the relational
> > model in a graph as implying that they are somehow equal.
>
>
> Would you say the following table follows the Information Principle? If
> not, how would you structure the data such that it does.
>
> T_Hierarchy
> Parent Child
> john jim

Tell me what the orignal propositions being recorded are and I can answer your question. Received on Sun Dec 10 2006 - 08:18:52 CST