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From: "Marshall  Spight" <marshall.spight@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sql views for denomalizing
Date: 3 Aug 2005 18:57:36 -0700
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dawn wrote:
> Marshall  Spight wrote:
>
> We might have beat this one to death at this
> point.  I'm definitely catching on that when I talk about a "data
> model" and when someone else here talks about a "data model" we have
> different pictures in our heads as to where that model might need to be
> employed.  Is that your sense as well?

Yes. I've mostly been talking about the metamodel lately, and I think
you're not drawing the distinction between the metamodel and a model
built in the metamodel.


Marshall