Re: Modeling question...

Bob Badour wrote:
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> You were talking about physical performance. Thus, the key concept is
> not logical independence via views but physical independence via
> whatever structures the dbms has available to physically store various
> representations of the data.

That's the way I think Fabian Pascal saw it too. Regardless of whether one thinks the shortest logical path is the only logical path, it has annoyed me no end that the (few) dbms's I've used didn't allow me to insert my own logic in between their storage level and the user view. Received on Fri Nov 14 2008 - 23:18:45 CET