Not necessarily about UI, but 'nested set' tree representation works extremely well and simplifies a lot of typical hierarchical queries http://www.dbmsmag.com/9603d06.html
I recomment Joe's book 'SQL for Smarties' --- Tapestry Stuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, wondering if anyone has come up with a nicer way > to present LARGE sets > of hierarchical data. Trees are fine but the large > set makes the tree > unwieldy. We have been using tacos tree for a long > time but now the set has > grown so large as to cause us grief with page layout > and looong db queries. > I think that persisting the tree is out of the > question as the set is too > large. > > Any ideas? > > -- > Nick > Konstantin Ignatyev PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
