Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!news.glorb.com!mpls-transit-01.news.qwest.net!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Question about modeling Reply-To: Gene Wirchenko Message-ID: References: <2rskv0li3jgd1ktq7t432v02fdq1sdm18g@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:38:05 -0800 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.161.240.54 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1107192933 216.161.240.54 (Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:35:33 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:35:33 CST Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:29683 On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:44:20 GMT, "David Cressey" wrote: >"Gene Wirchenko" wrote in message >news:2rskv0li3jgd1ktq7t432v02fdq1sdm18g@4ax.com... >> This is USENET, not E-mail. Others can and do reply to >> questions. >Yes, they can. And it's really useful when the reply adds something to the >discussion. That's why I posted the question in a public forum, although I >was hoping to hear from the OP. > >Were you hoping to add something to the discussion with your earlier >response? I did do so. I did write a bit elliptically, so I will spell it out for you: I can not tell from the posts for sure which entity has departments: the clients or the entity the db is for. Given that degree of uncertainty / unclear specification, what else might be ill-specified? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko