Re: An interesting database question
Re: An interesting database question
- Subject: Re: An interesting database question
- From: Jonathan Rochkind <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:46:06 -0500
[1] Can it be done using EOModeler calls on the fly;
Maybe. But it's going to be a big pain. [PS: It's not "EOModeler"
calls you are talking about; EOModeler is a developer tool. You're
talking about the Enterprise Objects Framework, EOF.]
[2] Has anyone seen it done, and if so, why?
No.
[3] Should it be done?
I don't think so. That's not really the way that relational
databases are meant to be set up. Even if you weren't using WO/EOF, I
wouldn't think it would be a good idea, and can't see why you'd want
to do it. With WO/EOF----it becomes even a worse idea, because EOF
is not expecting things to be set up like this. I think you're going
to have a lot of trouble getting it to work----for a purpose you have
not identified (and seem to be asking others to suggest!). What was
the purpose that whoever proposed this scheme had in mind?
--Jonathan
Thanks in advance for any advice on this.
At 5:16 PM -0500 4/7/04, John Spicer wrote:
We will have a database (accessed with webobjects, of course!) that
will have accounts in it that information is written into.
We will also have N patients (N being an unknown number).
All the databases I've seen would do this as one table (account)
with some way of identifying which row belongs to which patient.
It has been proposed that instead of one accounting table, we have N
tables, one for each patient.
Each table would be created on the fly (from the app) using some
kind of eo modeler commands.
I don't know if it's possible yet. I don't know if the database we
deploy would allow creation on the fly (due to licensing
considerations, perhaps).
The question I guess is in three parts:
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