Re: Modeling Interfaces [Was: Modelling improvements: inheritance + interfacing (Draft)]

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 05:25:57 EDT

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    On May 30, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

    > The only use I can see for it is a *coincidental* match between
    > groups of attributes in multiple tables. So is it worth
    > complicating the mapping by introducing a concept with no analog in
    > the DB world? My suspicion is that it will be very hard to explain
    > to the users.

    More on coincidental part. It will only occur in denormalized
    schemas, as DB "schema reuse" is done via normalization. So it is an
    edge case.

    Andrus

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