Some Features I think that will be cool

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 6/20/04 5:59 PM, "Ang Siow Chen" <maillist at darke.biz> wrote:

> eg Use of such a feature
> 
> 1 Customer to 1 Company Detail --> Pointer to 1 record in another table
> 1 Customer to Many Meter --> Pointer to 1 Table
> 
> why because each meter has millions of records
> It is faster to jsut retrieve the whole table than to query for the meter in
> table...
> 
> dun you think this would be great.
> 
> User can design a table called relationships
> It has 2 fields
> Parent pointer
> Child Pointer

Ang,

Valentina 2.0 will introduce new abstraction in model

    Link 

        and Binary Link in particular.

So in Valentina 2.0 instead of creation of third table to link records of 2
tables we will be able simply do

    db.CreateBinaryLink( T1, T2 )

Very cool!
 
> You can create an application that has relationships that are a lot more
> easy to manage.
> because now the pointer can be anything...
> 
> it can be a table pointer or a record pointer or a field pointer.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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