Re: Many To Many Relationships

On Apr 16, 1:20 pm, "David Cressey" <cresse..._at_verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Something like that. Requires RVAs and an aggregate union.
> > Clearly no standard way to do in SQL, but there might be
> > some hack that lets you do the union as a string operation
> > which might be sufficient for some applications.
>
> OK, but what I offered was not a hack. For once, I was trying to give a
> serious response to this kind of question.
>
> (You may not recognize it as such, but it's the same question that Dawn has
> raised a dozen times in the last few years.)
>
> Pushing the result of a SQL query through a hierarchical report writer is
> really not hacking. It's serious work, albeit without much theoretical
> merit at all.

Oh, totally. I didn't intend to detract from your answer at all. Your answer was practical; mine was almost entirely impractical.

Marshall Received on Mon Apr 16 2007 - 15:45:30 CDT