Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Lew" Subject: Re: Designing a structure Message-ID: X-Comment-To: comp.databases,comp.lang. Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.databases In-Reply-To: <117m1416cql168hsqhkv9qhamnp1gp9abh@4ax.com> References: <117m1416cql168hsqhkv9qhamnp1gp9abh@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 34 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:21:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303917689 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:21:29 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:21:29 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.databases:53 To: comp.databases,comp.lang. David Segall wrote: > The history of computing has been about finding the "true correct" > data model or user interface and _then_ optimising features including > the ones you list. That is completely false. Studies and experience have consistently shown that there is more than one "correct" solution for almost every software requirement. The history of computing has notably omitted attempts to find any "true correct" data model or user interface, and has focused instead on elucidating principles by which *a* correct solution can be found in any given situation. > I believed my original post indicated that I had thought about the > problem, looked at other people's solutions and that I was coming to > you because I was not satisfied with anything I had seen so far. I > assumed that the post spoke for itself and, even if it did not, a > respondent would do a Google search before making assumptions about > the poster. Clearly, my post was not as lucid as it seemed to me > because this is the fourth response based on an elementary database > design course. I was seeking a breakthrough data model of a personal > address book that one of you had thought of in the shower this > morning. In other words, you couldn't come up with the idea, and since Ed and others didn't, now it's their fault. -- Lew --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24