Thanks. I will look into this and see if I can make it work.
Frank
On Apr 21, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
On Apr 20, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Mr. Frank Cobia wrote:
I have a database design question. I am posting it to the
WebObjects list because I am building a WebObjects app and want a
I had thought of something along theses lines, but I was worried about
searches. Most of the time I will not be accessing the locations
through the tree, but doing a search such as where location = Georgia
which will also need to pull up anything with a location in a country,
metro region
Correction, the search below with the code would be
where location.code like us.georgia.metroatlanta%
On Apr 22, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Mr. Frank Cobia wrote:
I had thought of something along theses lines, but I was worried
about searches. Most of the time I will not be accessing the
locations
About that irrational fear...
Sometimes code is your best friend.
I like your URL approach.
-j-
On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Mr. Frank Cobia wrote:
I had thought of something along theses lines, but I was worried
about searches. Most of the time I will not be accessing the
locations
It does not always point to city and that is what is throwing me off.
They do haphazardly point to different different locations.
Thanks,
Frank Cobia
On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:05 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
Does your data haphazardly point to any location? Or does it point
always to city (the
Why not model all the different location types with an abstract parent
(like 'Location'), and then relate from your data object to the
abstract 'Location' class? Something like this:
Class/entity hierarchy:
Location : City
Location : State
Location : Country
Location : Region
City could
On Apr 20, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Mr. Frank Cobia wrote:
I have a database design question. I am posting it to the WebObjects
list because I am building a WebObjects app and want a solution that
works well for EOF.
I have a table of data that has to have a location associated with
it.
I have a database design question. I am posting it to the WebObjects
list because I am building a WebObjects app and want a solution that
works well for EOF.
I have a table of data that has to have a location associated with it.
Unfortunately the level of the location is not constant. The
Does your data haphazardly point to any location? Or does it point
always to city (the most discreet) which is hierarchical down from
Country?
If that is the case just point it to city and you will have access to
all the other locations as they would all be joined in to-one
relationship up
