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?
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