Re: Ideas for World Hierarchy Example
Date: 14 Jan 2007 11:50:55 -0800
Message-ID: <1168804255.140817.178420_at_11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 14, 10:22 am, Bernard Peek <b..._at_shrdlu.com> wrote:
>
> How about turning the collective brainpower of the group on a
> constructive task: design a workable computer-based EAV system. The
> librarians built theirs 200 years ago, and it has been largely unchanged
> since Mr Dewey used Mr Aristotle's classification methods to create it.
> Can we do better in the 21st century?
Been working on this for the last two years with a decent sized team.
(I argued against this approach early on and lost.) The problems with
EAV are fundamental, so I don't see any path to doing "better."
Sometime I mean to sit down and write up some queries in SQL
against a fully modeled schema and against an EAV schema and
compare.
Marshall Received on Sun Jan 14 2007 - 20:50:55 CET