Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #1586 - 16 msgs
Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #1586 - 16 msgs
- Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #1586 - 16 msgs
- From: Richard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:35:50 +1100
- Organization: Faraday R&D
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Message: 15
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:02:37 -0600
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Subject: Re: proper location for a database file
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From: Glenn Howes <email@hidden>
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To: email@hidden
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Well, my first instinct here is the logical fallacy of an appeal to
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authority. The following iApps have databases and don't treat them as
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documents: iPhoto, Address Book, iTunes, iCal, Mail. But, I suppose I
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should think of why a database is different then a document and why.
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OK, here is my reason to not treat the database as a document. By it's
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very nature a database is made more valuable by increasing its size.
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Splitting up a databases information into separate smaller databases
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diminishes the whole. Documents on the other hand derive there power
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from limiting their contents to what is useful to a given, time limited
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task.
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It would probably be more useful to add an owner field field to the
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database so everyone in the household would know what was theirs, while
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still having access to what others had to offer. Presumably, I can get
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the name of the person currently logged in and a list of all the
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accounts on the machine to allow ownership to be manually changed. I
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could even add security to allow access to authorized people or groups
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(not going to happen, but I could).
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I am currently considering converting my document based app to use
a database and the route that appeals to me is to make the document
a proxy for a particular view into the database.
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