Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:39:21 +0100
Message-ID: <dvMAwSOp030AFwrs_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk>
In message <40ce486e$0$568$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>, mAsterdam
<mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> writes
>> To get the invoice data
>> LIST INVOICES BY _at_ID field-names
>> and to get a listing of what's shipped grouped by stock code
>> LIST INVOICES BY.EXP STOCK-CODE field-names.
>> In other words, I've just changed the sort criteria from the primary
>>single-valued invoice number to the multi-valued stock code, and the
>>db will chuck a different view of the data at me.
>
>The logistic manager is not iterested in INVOICES.
>Why do you bother her with INVOICES? She wants to see
>SHELVES, WAREHOUSES, ORDERQUANTITIES, PACKLISTS (just adapting
>to your shouting habit ;-)
As for the logistics manager, yes why should she be interested in
invoices (apart from checking that what was billed actually arrived, or
what was sent actually got billed). I would guess that in her STOCK file
she will have attributes like SHELF, QUANTITY and so on. What's in stock
is different data to what's been billed :-) so it lives in a different
FILE :-)
Cheers,
Wol
-- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports as Lies-to-People. The Science of Discworld : (c) Terry Pratchett 1999Received on Sat Jun 19 2004 - 01:39:21 CEST