On Nov 12, 12:54 pm, Cimode <cim..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I never undesrtood the hierarchical obsession. It is like a bad
> natural habit.
>
A person of your obvious intelligence and proficiency in
matters relational has no problem interacting with databases.
That is fine for you, but for the vast majority of people (not just
IT people), database interaction will be impossible without
a level-appropriate interface, preferably graphical.
I've never seen a non-proprietary graphical database interface
for RDBs that was not basically textual. I know there are
database experts in cdt who will disagree with me on this,
but I believe that the common man understands hierarchical
intuitively, whereas tabular/textual interfaces are incomprehensible
when the amount of data that can be displayed textually
exceeds the size of the screen. Graphical representation
of hierarchies using color, size, shape, icons and action
are so much more compact.
If you extrapolate backwards from what I say to "we should
go back to hierarchical DBMSs," you are wrong. What I want
to see are hierarchical interfaces to RDBMSs.