[DISCUSSION] Object Relational Mapping (ORM) - faulting/collections

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 14/10/07 8:15 PM, "Thorsten Hohage" <thohage at objectmanufactur.com> wrote:

>>> Would this setup not mean that one only needs one (1) BINARY link for
>>> all his needs( within that db)
>>> 
>>> Since you can link with an OID pair anything to anything you don't
>>> need to define more than one binary link for a given database
>> 
>> Very interesting idea and point :)
>> 
>>     One big Universal collection.
>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> While I think THIS is a nice idea, I'm afraid that this collection
> may be a little to big, even for Valentina.

Yes, it will be big.


>> Although note, usually we want find Phones/Cars/Children/
>> Parents/... Of a
>> PERSON.
>> 
>> But still can easy work with Universal Collection:
>> 
>>     For Person RecId
>>         find all linked PHONES
> 
> Find ALL LINKED "Items" , not only phones

ALL is very easy -- this is default search.


>> KIND of object is defined by TableID.
> 
> Yes, that was one of my requests in the mail about links

Then I have not catch it

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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