Re: Navigation question

From: Walt <wamitty_at_verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:42:04 GMT
Message-ID: <0WmBh.6$aM.2@trndny03>

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1171467823.631582.265790_at_a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> In another thread "navigation" is again mentioned as undesirable. It
> often sounds as if folks are saying that there is data-based software
> written without using any navigation; that there truly is an option;
> that we can choose an approach with navigation or one without.
>
> Although I have seen views often used, especially for reporting, I
> might be missing something big here (as some of you suspect) as I have
> never seen any data-based software application that does not perform
> navigations. Application software typically reads data from a
> database, takes a foreign key value, and reads in other data.
>

Are you familiar with the relational model of data? Received on Fri Feb 16 2007 - 12:42:04 CST