Re: proper location for a database file
Re: proper location for a database file
- Subject: Re: proper location for a database file
- From: Glenn Howes <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:02:37 -0600
Well, my first instinct here is the logical fallacy of an appeal to
authority. The following iApps have databases and don't treat them as
documents: iPhoto, Address Book, iTunes, iCal, Mail. But, I suppose I
should think of why a database is different then a document and why.
OK, here is my reason to not treat the database as a document. By it's
very nature a database is made more valuable by increasing its size.
Splitting up a databases information into separate smaller databases
diminishes the whole. Documents on the other hand derive there power
from limiting their contents to what is useful to a given, time limited
task.
It would probably be more useful to add an owner field field to the
database so everyone in the household would know what was theirs, while
still having access to what others had to offer. Presumably, I can get
the name of the person currently logged in and a list of all the
accounts on the machine to allow ownership to be manually changed. I
could even add security to allow access to authorized people or groups
(not going to happen, but I could).
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Nicholas Riley wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:17:36AM -0600, Glenn Howes wrote:
Perhaps, I should support a choice of locations, and a means to merge
databases.
How about just treating the database as a document, and using the
regular save as mechanism to handle it, then just open the most recent
document (or make it a preference). People can stick the document in
/Users/Shared or on some network mounted volume if they want to, then,
and the location of the data file will be transparent to the user.
Merging could be as simple as copying and pasting items from one
database to the other.
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=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> |
<http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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