Re: A Question on Integrety
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:46:45 -0000
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"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
news:f4KdnWy-JsAB5H2iRVn-tA_at_golden.net...
> > A few years ago I remember wandering, at what point does an online
> "shopping cart" become an "order". Could a cart be considered an order
> > that is under construction? Or should the completed cart be "migrated"
> > to an order?
>
> It is mostly irrelevant with adequate physical and logical independence,
> and depends on the particular view an application sees.
>
> Does it really matter all that much whether: "A = B UNION C" or "B = A
WHERE
> p" and "C = A WHERE NOT p" ?
>
Agreed. We just need a DBMS that allows us to instantly and repeatedly switch between such alternative sets of (what are considered as the) real tables.
Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services
Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 11:46:45 CET