Re: Modeling question...
From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:45:06 GMT
Message-ID: <mWhTk.297$jr4.136_at_edtnps82>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:45:06 GMT
Message-ID: <mWhTk.297$jr4.136_at_edtnps82>
paul c wrote:
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> I would say indirection is under-exploited in practice (even though
> Fabian Pascal once told me I was wrong to think of it as an option in
> logical dbms design).
> ...
> So maybe we were at cross-purposes. ...
Possibly I mis-represented him - I think he probably mentioned "data independence", meaning that I should implement such things in a way that the user wouldn't be aware of them, say with views. Not sure because his thinking was a little deeper than mine. Received on Fri Nov 14 2008 - 17:45:06 CET