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[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/11/06 11:20 PM, "Joakim Schramm" <joakim at astrocalc.com> wrote:

>> Binary links will not win ObjectPtr technically or by speed for 1 : M.
>> 
>> They can only looks better from point of view design, because
>> tables are clean without "link"-garbage fields.
>> 
> By the way Ruslan, is there any "technical" problems by having both
> ObjectPtr and Binary links, linking same records?

Totally the same?

What sense in this ???

> I have this set up but not tested yet, why?

> ObjectPtr is cheap and good when you want to find from M to 1 side Record,
> works fine 1:M also BUT Binary is more powerful if you want to work with
> collections of records, making comparisons etc.

Why you think so ?!

Both ObjectPtr and BinaryLink are generally speaking kind of interface

        ILink
        ILink2

So they are quite comparable by functionality

> I don't have this functionalities in my app yet, only planned, so I set up
> both links to have it ready in db later. Would be good to know if there is any
> (expected) problem with this.

There is no any need in this.


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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