Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!apple!hercules!fernwood!oracle!news From: mfriedma@oracle.com (Michael Friedman) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Views (was Re: Database design) Message-ID: <1990Aug25.213536.17280@oracle.com> Date: 25 Aug 90 21:35:36 GMT References: <1990Aug21.182201.10707@oracle.com> Reply-To: mfriedma@oracle.UUCP (Michael Friedman) Distribution: comp Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA Lines: 21 In article cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >In article <1990Aug21.182201.10707@oracle.com> mfriedma@oracle.com >(Michael Friedman) writes: > Don't bother messing with views. >This seems to be a general statement within the community. Why hasn't more >emphasis been put on "views" as a mechanism for increasing the insulation >between and application program and the database design? Isn't this what the >model of views was to support? Hey, this isn't fair. I was responding to a particular problem. The person who posted was making an inappropriate use of views to solve a problem in an extremely awkward manner. I would never tell someone to avoid views in general. -- The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA ... - Francis Fukuyama