Re: UK IUA agenda?

"ULR77596" <ULR77596@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4327ee04_2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Does anyone know where I be able to view ukiua agenda? I've had
> registration leter, but doing not know what will being happening.

That might be because idle sods like me have been slow to send in their
abstracts. Here it is now:

Title: Handling User-Defined Data

Abstract: We frequently encounter the need to extend the database design and
applications to include so-called user-defined data. Changes and
improvements to business processes depend on having some additional details
that were not anticipated in the original design. Sometimes entire new
entities must be added. Or sometimes truly massive new extensions to the
database must be allowed on an almost ad hoc basis. In this paper I
describe some of the details of these problems, and one frequently proposed
solution (the entity-attribute-value design, or EAV). I then describe a
much simpler, more flexible, and powerful solution the exploits the
intrinsic capabilities of a relational DBMS like Ingres.

I may be doing another presentation too, but I haven't been told what it is
yet. ;-)

And Marty Bowes is doing one too, on the Pitfalls of Rollforwarddb. That
should be a real barn-burner!

Roy


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