Perry,
*chuckling*..well, I feel my old friend 'Feature Creep' rapidly approaching.
OK, I did put that part in the beginning that says it was for someone
with no database
experience at all - so I should have a glossary.
As for spelling and consitency in terminology...guilty as charged.
As for relational vs Flat and the word 'native'. In my mind if one is
precise there is no such thing
as a flat Base databae, nor a hierarchical one. Ther is only one
'native' Base database
type and that is relational. You can create a Base file that connects to
a flat database file,
but the database is the flat file not the Base file. Maybe I should not
use the word 'native',
perhaps 'default' would be better. I could sidestep the whole issue but
looking at how it
is worded on the Base information page at the OpenOffice site "BASE’s
own built-in HSQL
database engine.", and given the fact that if you create a new Base
document with all default
settings (File>New>Database Finished [name the file] ) you have a
relational database, the term
native database engine seemed appropriate.
Anyhow, I have made quite a few changes to the file over the weekend and
hopefully you will find
this next cut a bit easier to follow.
Thanks for the input
Drew
