Fred Frazelle wrote:
'because at work we pretty much put the db together and then just work
with it. .....
I did not mean to be overly assertive Fred,
Actually your response offers plenty of information. First - somethingt
that Frank has mentioned a couple of times - that of whom the target
user for Base is. I would say that for someone that is going to build
one application and then "....almost forget how we put it together",
just changing from having to work with three terms ( tables, views and
queries ) to being able to work with just two ( tables and queries )
would have to be a big plus. Eliminating even one step, no matter how
small, would also be a big plus. Bottom line is that I know, from
pervious messages here, that Frank and his team are diligently working
towards an application that addresses your needs.
The main thing we used this for was what you mentioned above: the
ability to be able to update any of the columns. The other thing
which we use quite a bit is the replaceable parameters option.
i hope this helps.
Precisely my point. I spent more then a couple of hours this weekend
thinking about this, and trying to come up with use case scenarios where
having the ability to base a query on a query would offer some real
enhancement for a non-IT specific office user. ( Perhaps not a good
discription of the user, but hopefully everyone understands what I mean
) I keep running into a situation where the real benefit is not this
feature at all, but rather some tangenical functionality. For example
having the designer be a bit smater, or the fact that when a calculated
field is in a result set, as the update command should not it trys to
write data to the calculated field. The fact that one must have a left
outer join in order to make a result set, joining two tables, updatable
but then not allowing multile outer joins - so a thind table can not be
part of this query. Anyway, I am beginning to ramble - and I have much
of these comments in a document I am finaliziing and will put up for
whatever use it may be later this week.
Drew
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
