Re: boolean datatype ... wtf?

On 1 okt, 21:37, Tegiri Nenashi <tegirinena..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 1, 11:41 am, Erwin <e.sm..._at_myonline.be> wrote:
>
> > ... but I might reconsider this position if I have to apply
> > this technique for thousands and thousands of questions in a survey
> > (thousands and thousands of relvar names to remember, you know).
>
> One thing that makes a user more comfortable with attributes is that
> for each relation a set of its attributes is exhibited naturally. It
> is certainly more challenging to find a relation of interest, than an
> attribute in a relation in poorly designed database, where dictionary
> is no help, and one have to guess relation names. Compare it to
> properly designed database, where one just looks up all the foreign
> keys from master entity table, e.g. Cars <-  CarsWithImmobiliser

Yes. That's why I said what you quoted. Received on Fri Oct 01 2010 - 22:16:25 CEST