Re: Mapping one to many

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>I am not saying that this solution doesn't work or even that is a "bad"
>one but what I'm saying is that there is obviously a better solution. Also
>there are better forms, other than row/column, in which to module data but
>there any Databases that support them. If you'll notice from my second
>message I was asking why that is so is so and to please enlighten me to
>the magic of RMDBs. I feel as if there is something about RMDBs that will
>explain alot but is just beyond my reach and I what to know what it is.
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>

Sometimes it's really good to know, why things are how the are. The base for
RDBMs is pure mathematic.

This would be a first step into it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd

Besides, there is no problem to store tree structures in an SQL System. As
far as i know there even exists an LDAP implementation in DB2. Here is a
description (hard to read for beginners - but it works and is "simple")

Regards Sepp

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