Sorry, this site is on MGOS 2.0.2 with SQL Server 2005 on a W2K3 box.
Jackie Ng wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was wondering if anyone uses this feature (pardon the pun). > > When I first started with MapGuide, this was the feature that was of most > interest to me as it seemed like an easy way to link spatial data with > whatever non-spatial databases we have around. > > But after many bad experiences with performance, and some really nasty > join bugs (mainly http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/502), I've have > totally shunned using feature joins, and either resorting to either > pre-joining, baking the data and refreshing the dataset at regular > intervals, or using a spatially enabled rdbms that does the joins at the > dbms level. > > I've have followed the best practices guide, but is seems every database I > have encountered has its own set of quirks that don't play nice with > MapGuide. > > Most of our clients were sold on the feature joins capability (well by my > sales colleagues anyway), and it pains me (as an implementer, one to has > to deliver) to have to workaround this feature because it fails to perform > at a satisfactory level. > > I'd like to hear other people's experiences with feature joins. Is your > experience better/worse? > > - Jackie > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Does-anyone-use-Feature-Joins--tp1646599p1648534.html Sent from the MapGuide Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
