Re: MIS Departmental improvements

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:03:13 -0500, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1)  Creating decent views.  Even before I started adopting SQL I used DDS
> to join multiple files together.  Now all the user has to do is query the
> view instead of joining this to that.  Much better, (and less risky).  The
> first thing that other tools do is have you prebuild a lot of queries for
> your users - in effect, building these same views.

(Giving myself the "I coulda had a V8 head-smack)...

I never thought about that.  Like other products, SEQUEL has the
ability to use views as templates for other views (which set up the
joins automatically) and the ability to define that certain files
should automatically be joined together when both are in the same
view.  But there's such a beautiful simplicity to just doing the join
for the user and letting him use the new "file."  I'm definitely going
to use that idea.

Mike E.