Re: Hierachical structures - an overview

From: Dawn M. Wolthuis <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:15:31 -0600
Message-ID: <bta3ac$69i$1_at_news.netins.net>


"Paul" <paul_at_not.a.chance.ie> wrote in message news:MPG.1a628b0ca4a651a8989874_at_news1.eircom.net...
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> dwolt_at_tincat-group.com says...
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> > One of these directions is an array/list/relation
> > of links which means yet another frickin' table in an RDBMS.
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> Fancy that! More fricken (we say friggin over here) information means
> yet another fricken table in an RDBMS - isn't that just shocking?
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and if I thought that there really were gains by taking an application that could be 10 non-RDBMS database"files" (tables that include tables as elements) and exploding it to more than 100 tables, I would be in favor of all those tables, but I don't, so I'm not. ;-)

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> Paul...
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> BTW, your point about sports analogies and women was interesting, what
> is your own turf? Ever seen Gazon Maudit?
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Good job landing a question that is "on my turf" but, alas, that film is still on my "must see sometime" list.
Cheers! --dawn

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