Because I can search on a specific value in the list. An example might be if I had a Property record and related to it are zero to many product segments. If I want to find all properties that have ABC product segment and I stored my product segments as a comma seperated list in my table then I would have a decently hard time looking for this. I say decently because I also have a set of functions that will convert a comma separated list to a table result, but they use up more resources and something I typically just use for parsing in data. Now if I store my Product segment to Property relationship in another table then I can just add to my where clause something like WHERE LKP.PRODSEGID = {Unique ID for ABC Product Segment} My query still just returns one row of data, which contains all the columns for the property record and one that is a comma separated list of product segments and those lists all have one occurence of ABC in them.
I suppose you could do a query that looked for LIKE '%,ABC,%' as well as LIKE 'ABC,%' as well as = 'ABC' as well as LIKE '%,ABC' On 3/17/06, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>So in this case my function returns a comma seperated list of > permissions, would be the same as > doing a ValueList() in CF on the query results though. > > Then, if your code is using a list anyway, what's the big deal not > storing the list directly in the user's record? > > -- > _______________________________________ > REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; > See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm > (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Thanks. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:235694 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54