Alexander Johannesen schrieb:
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>> An index should look like a printed index in a book where you
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> Not when you're talking about database indeces; they are technical
> components and have nothing to do with what anything looks like.
>
Well, I was actually talking about the appearance, not the technical
component. And I was saying that SQL indexes were not designed to
be displayed. A sorted display of names, titles, etc. may be *based*
on an internal SQL index, but it *is* not that index, it would have
to be a separate table.
I was trying to find out if the lack of displayable, browsable, visible
indexes in OPAC systems comes from a difficulty to actually construct
them (with SQL), or from a lack of demand. The latter seems to be the
case.
B. Eversberg
Received on Thu Jun 22 2006 - 06:45:10 EDT