Re: Navigation question

On Mar 5, 7:36 pm, Sampo Syreeni <d..._at_iki.fi> wrote:

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> Still, presume you went for maximal selectiveness on each query: you'd
> query on the primary key. Suppose you did this for each foreign key
> value on another table, without any intervening user input or program
> logic. Then your client software would be reimplementing a join on the
> two tables, in a manner I'd call "navigational".

Call it what you will; but if it's "navigational", where are the pointers to navigate with ?

"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck."

This might look like a duck, but it neither walks nor quacks like one.

• Tony