Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?

[chuck hinkle]

>> From: "chuck hinkle" <chuckbo at hinkles.us>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:26:54 -0600 (CST)
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>> You want wild, dream features? Okay:
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>> 1) an OLAP engine with MDX support;
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> Hmm, these Is not just a feature, but the whole product
> :-)

Very, very true. But SQL Server 7 did an exceptional implementation of it,
but I don't like Windows.

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>> 2) a Point datatype (along with a geographic extension to SQL ... see
>> Oracle Spatial);
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> Data type POINT ?
> 
> And this will make you happy?  :-)
> Explain please why?


This is probably the least useful to most people, but it's very fine if you
need it. I don't have a project for it now, but I've needed it in the past
for grpahing.
A point refers to an X,Y coordinate, so you can store a Lat/Long there. I
haven't played with Oracle Spatial, so I don't know the WHERE clause syntax,
but let's say that you are storing landmarks with a point. You can then do a
query where you pass a point to the database and have it return all items
within a certain distance from that point. That's a tricky thing to program
(and optimize) without point data because the distance calculation is based
on a circle's radius.
So don't take that dream very seriously, but I just wanted to provide some
extremely high goals for you to aim at.  :)


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>> 3) a 4GL application development environment
> 
> This is in development -- Valentina Studio

Cool.