Re: DB design document

2000-12-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
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Re: DB design document

2000-12-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ts at run time. Of course only the implementor of the dbms API as presented to the GnuCash developers needs to deal with any of this. Would not there be a layer of gnc_dbms_libraries between the gnc_engine and the sql-client-lib to handle the case where the dbms server cannot do something? So that mos

Re: GUID Factory

2000-12-18 Thread Jean-David Beyer
at they could not be used. It means that the enforcement of foreign key relationships would have to be moved from the dbms, where it belongs, into the application, where it does not belong, complicating the design and construction of the application. [snip] -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Regi

Re: GUID Factory

2000-12-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
David Merrill wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:49:02PM -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > Christopher Browne wrote (in part): > > > > > > This is something that is indeed appropriately generated in the "engine," > > > not in the DB; the rel

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Bill Gribble wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:38:36PM -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > Do gnc_commodities have unique keys that identify them? E.g., does the > > commodity > > > > {stock, company_name McAfee Associates, ticker MCAF, other_data} > >

Re: GUID Factory

2000-12-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
be a foreign key or not depends on whether or not it is the primary key of another table, relation, or whatever you want to call it. Even then, you would not need to declare it to be a foreigh key unless you want to enforce the relationship between the two tables (which you probably should). Or

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Bill Gribble wrote (in part): > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:09:55PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > > Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Whether or not you store the price database in a formal dbms or not, > > > what would

Re: DB design document

2000-12-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
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Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
rest of the application generally results in a cleaner, more maintainable system. > > > > * design an API that's exactly what we need, regardless of the DB > > involved, and plan to just have a server-side gnucash daemon > > that manages the DB interface,

Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
nt details are even more difficult to achieve, since there is no enlightened CEO who can decree that the decisions of the principal architect are law. It seems to have worked with the Linux kernel, where L.T. had the principal architect role, perhaps by acclamation, rather than executive fiat. -

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
LENT TECHNOLOGIES), nor can you look up the old Chrysler company prices (since C is now used by CITIGROUP). -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ Registered Machine73926. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New J

Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
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Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
with a SQL interface) might wish to consult a good book on the subject, such as Chris Date's "An Introduction To Database Systems" (I have sixth edition, 1995) published by Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-54329-X. This will not tell you the exact details of u

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2000-06-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
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2000-05-31 Thread Jean-David Beyer
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