Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Is there a SQL hashmap? Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:36:10 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <031dadbc-3c27-4021-9b1d-8cb860c5e9f6@googlegroups.com> <34af17f0-0d59-4b87-8af0-01ce37deb5cb@googlegroups.com> <1d1add22-1fd4-45b1-964f-9501db447c91@googlegroups.com> <448e760f-e34d-4129-8ca6-5a699023789f@googlegroups.com> <76690c5f-8ceb-46ce-ba14-9d14d3c4608d@googlegroups.com> <1efce28f-d38a-4a42-b5c8-c69a0753fdd3@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38462 On 6/29/2018 6:34 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:20:10 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote: >> On 29.06.2018 15:43, Martin Gregorie wrote: >>> As in 'Add a view to the existing database'. >> >> As far as I understood Eric he does not want to modify the existing >> database in _any_ way. If you can create a view there then you can also >> add a table with the mapping against which you can join. >> > I know, but I think its worthwhile letting him know what a view is, its > likely impact and how I understand it to work on at least one DB > (PosgreSQL). At least it gives him more information to work with. > > Although I haven't used SQLServer, I did do a fair bit of work > programming and doing DBA stuff with Sybase, though I don't recall using > views on it. SQL Server was forked from the Sybase RDBMS. Sybase supports views. Also back when Sybase and MS split ways 20-25 years. Arne