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Hi Maury
You are right about the size problem, but the projects where I have used this apporach this has not been a issue. Happy poking :-)
FT
"Maury Markowitz" <maury_at_remove_this.sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote in message
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> "FT" <ft_at_ep-soft.dk> wrote in message
> news:hcAA6.127$X22.1787_at_news.get2net.dk...
> > Hi
> >
> > An alternative approach would be to create a "Key" column. This column
holds
> > a key string made up of Subkey from each level in the hierarchy. IE:
>
> Hmmmm, this is interesting. Ok, I like it. The only problem I see is
that
> the size of the table is then set based on the length of the key, but I'll
> poke around and see what the real limits are.
>
> Maury
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 10 2001 - 14:33:21 CDT
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