Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-10 Thread Wols Lists
On 09/11/11 19:05, Steve Romanow wrote: Are any of the multivalued fields associated to each other? You would have a subtable per association, not per column. The messiness still exists, it just needs to be managed. And are you looking to export it to MySQL (or whatever), or are you planing

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-10 Thread George Gallen
[antli...@youngman.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:54 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... On 09/11/11 19:05, Steve Romanow wrote: Are any of the multivalued fields associated to each other? You would have a subtable per

[U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread George Gallen
I'm in the process of creating/updating a MySQL database for external applications to analyze some of the data. My initial method of dealing with a multivalued field, is to create it's own table, keyed to the master table (1:n) But this gets a little tedious if you have a bunch of multivalued

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... [AD]

2011-11-09 Thread Robert Houben
(or Oracle, DB2, Progress, MySQL...) http://youtu.be/aI9TcMfCRDg -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: November-09-11 10:34 AM To: U2 Users Subject: [U2] Suggestions for flattening

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread Steve Romanow
It might be worth doing some of this work with an ORM (Object Relation Mapper). Almost all higher level languages have them. Once you get things configured, the messiness of the joins is hidden behind syntactic sugar. Here is a comparison of a lot of them from wikipedia.

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread George Gallen
] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... It might be worth doing some of this work with an ORM (Object Relation Mapper). Almost all higher level languages have them. Once you get things configured, the messiness of the joins is hidden behind syntactic sugar. Here is a comparison of a lot

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread Wjhonson
Welcome to Hell! -Original Message- From: George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, Nov 9, 2011 10:57 am Subject: Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... I was looking more for ideas on how to setup the database

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread Robert Houben
Subject: Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... I was looking more for ideas on how to setup the database structure to handle the 1:n other than the Sidebar tables joined to the master table. Right now, the scope of the data being moved off is fairly small, I didn't want to involve any

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread Steve Romanow
with one that Does not handle it natively! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:41 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread George Gallen
it in the database. George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Houben Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:03 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... Whenever the fields

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread George Gallen
Subject: Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... Are any of the multivalued fields associated to each other? You would have a subtable per association, not per column. The messiness still exists, it just needs to be managed. ___ U2-Users mailing

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread Phil Walker
2011 8:06 a.m. To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... For a couple of the fields, I've done this, but for most of them, there are no range of counts. Oh well. The only other method I'll use for some of the other fields is storing them

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread Jeffrey Butera
On 11/09/11 14:05, Steve Romanow wrote: Are any of the multivalued fields associated to each other? You would have a subtable per association, not per column. This is precisely how Datatel reverse-engineered their back end from Unidata to MSSQL. -- Jeff Butera, Ph.D. Manager of ERP

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread George Gallen
: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:15 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues... Why are you using MySql if you are after free you could use Postgresql which I believe supported nested tables built in? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread DavidJMurray (mvdbs.com)
Try MongoDB - It's a good match to a mvdbms and has drivers for most common programming environments. djm phil walker-2 wrote: Why are you using MySql if you are after free you could use Postgresql which I believe supported nested tables built in? - Learn and Do Excel and Share

Re: [U2] Suggestions for flattening Multivalues...

2011-11-09 Thread Steve Romanow
I have used Sleepy Mongoose to push data to mongo via curl. http://www.snailinaturtleneck.com/blog/2010/02/22/sleepy-mongoose-a-mongodb-rest-interface/ On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:07 PM, DavidJMurray (mvdbs.com) nab...@mvdbs.com wrote: Try MongoDB - It's a good match to a mvdbms and has drivers