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Normalization VS Convenience
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30/06/1998 10:36:05
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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00108406
Message ID:
00112920
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>>I'm just curious...with this technique of setting relations, can you use this in a grid? I haven't ever used more than one table in a grid...
>
>Yeah, you can. I'm a little fuzzy on the details, since I only saw it and haven't tried it, but I know it can be done.
>
>The example he did was a detail list for an invoice. Instead of the part number that was part of the detail table, he had it put the description from the parts table. And if you changed the description, it actually wrote the corresponding part number into the detail table.
Michelle,
I agree with Ed. This is reinventing the views (or just inventing before VFP). Views have definite superiority over relations needing less Aspirins for headaches. All old FP code were based on relations and many extra caution to prevent wrong updates, refreshes etc. Relations are not death and still an important part of xBase but I vote for views too.
BTW your gender was referring to "Y" I think (good "relation" to remember key).
Cetin
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