Re: Academic ERDs vs. Professional ERDs

  • From: "Nuno Souto" <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:53:28 +1100

Implementation details, I'm sure.
To be abstracted into a virtual interface class...
¦D
Cheers
Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TOMPKINS, MARGARET" <MARGARET.TOMPKINS@xxxxxxxx>
>    As an academic exercise, I recall one developer who modeled the =
> universe with two entities, "things" and "thing types".  After some =
> discussion, we realized that "thing types" were actually "things" also.  =
> Hence, we were down to one entity.  Of course it had a recursive =
> relationship.  And yes, there would be a lot of code to write to make it =
> work. :-)


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