Re: Navigation question

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:37:33 GMT
Message-ID: <NL1Bh.6862$R71.103053@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Tony D wrote:

> I'm not going into this blow by blow, but a couple of comments ...
> 
> On Feb 15, 2:17 pm, "dawn" <dawnwolth..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 

>>On Feb 14, 7:24 pm, "Marshall" <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I don't think I've ever written a cartesian product into client
>>>code. I've done a few at the command line, though.
>>
>>I am understanding this to mean that you do not create or use views
>>used by your code that introduce cross-products, correct?
>
> Why mention of views in this context ? It's just joins between tables.

Why ask why someone uses sophistry? It's sophistry. Is it not enough to note the fact?

>>OK, I'll buy that you would not use the term "navigation" to find this
>>node. I still think of this select statement as "going to" the
>>company where tin=XXX and extracting the name, where I suspect you do
>>not. I do not see it as navigating within the database, however, so
>>we are good so far.

>
> I'm not getting the repeated use of 'node', or of 'going to'.

They help the self-aggrandizing ignorant load the question.

[snipped counter-productive response to sophistry] Received on Thu Feb 15 2007 - 12:37:33 CST