Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!news.highwinds-media.com!news-server.columbus.rr.com!tornado.ohiordc.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jay Dee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Design question: one big field or slave table References: <1146659929.847611.160040@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1146682632.898790.274010@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1146727248.661911.288210@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 03:51:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.123.195.58 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: tornado.ohiordc.rr.com 1146801111 24.123.195.58 (Thu, 04 May 2006 23:51:51 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 23:51:51 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:39202 Bob Badour wrote: > Matthieu wrote: > >> Ok thanks you for your answers. >> I'll post my query on comp.databases. >> >> The DBMS is Oracle (9 to 10) > > > Are you just seeking a better class of crank? I first thought, "In the modern era, wouldn't we say "crack?" Then, remembering a number of other posts made by this contributor, I thought, "Oh, maybe he doesn't mean that kind of 'crank.'" Then, thinking further, I though, "You know, maybe the first kind of 'crank' I thought of should be considered when trying to discern what the other kind of 'cranks' have been posting." That's it! Psychoactive substances! Of course! How obvious... [This post is no way is intended to impune any aspect of Matthieu's character, personality, or intellectual capability.]