Re: [Info-ingres] Re: UK IUA agenda?

Hi Roy,

Idle! How can a father of three such darling children be idle?
>
> 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.

Sounds good, I've just started looking at the OME to make user
functions - the user data stuff looked way to scary.
>
> I may be doing another presentation too, but I haven't been told what
> it is yet. ;-)

Sounds like a married man. You know your wrong, its only a
matter of waiting to be told exactly how your wrong.

These days, mine just whacks me over the nose with a rolled
up newspaper and says NO in a firm loud voice.
>
> And Marty Bowes is doing one too, on the Pitfalls of Rollforwarddb.
> That should be a real barn-burner!

Is that 'Barn Burning' in a good sense, or 'Barn Burning' as in
"We're Screwed!"?

I suppose as long as the Scots don't recind the treaty of Union
and start launching cross border raids to burn barns, we'll consider it a
good thing.

Marty
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