Posted by Racer on June 24, 2004, at 13:45:59
In reply to Re: Yeah, well, at least we know the problem... » Racer, posted by NikkiT2 on June 24, 2004, at 11:30:28
You know, I kinda knew the problem I was having "getting it" was based on the guy writing it being so inconsistent with his examples: some were based on the example he made up for the book, others were just random S, T, Sa1, that sort of thing. It really "feels" as if he used the random letters as placeholders until he made up an example, then got lazy and never changed some of them. (This is an old edition of the book, though, so it may have changed.)
Anyway, this is just to report that I finally managed to get a part of what I want working. Please -- don't cheer for me, because it makes me feel as if I have to finish the dang thing now! But I'm quietly pleased to have figured it out.
This particular problem is covered in a portion of the book that uses ONLY the random characters for examples. If he'd actually shown some of his 'real world' example, this would have been completely finished weeks ago, I think, since this is the only area of the program I've ever had trouble with.
Nikki, I'm telling you this because, as a Relational Database Goddess, I attribute this small success to the offerings I presented at your altar.
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