Re: Ideas for World Hierarchy Example

On Jan 14, 3:12 pm, Bernard Peek <b..._at_shrdlu.com> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> You could but I'm not sure whether it would tell you anything. You might
> get some insight into the problem if you handed a complex real-life data
> analysis problem to a bunch of students, and let them populate their
> databases with different subsets of the data.

Huh? What you thinking I was trying to learn from my proposal to try to write different queries under different schema? My intent was to see if there was any difference in how easy it is to express various constructs under the two different schemas. My intent was not to see how naive users behave. Not that that isn't a valid area of study.

Marshall Received on Mon Jan 15 2007 - 02:20:52 CET