Re: [GENERAL] FW: Proper nesting of hierarchical objects

2004-11-10 Thread Robert Treat
I missed the original post, but I think you both might want to do some googling on nested set. Robert Treat On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 11:40, Garris, Nicole wrote: > We've actually implemented this kind of thing in a different DBMS. The > physical design consists of a single "organization" table that

[GENERAL] FW: Proper nesting of hierarchical objects

2004-11-09 Thread Garris, Nicole
We've actually implemented this kind of thing in a different DBMS. The physical design consists of a single "organization" table that's something like: Org_key (primary key) Org_type (group, company, etc.) Org_level (group is 1, company is 2, etc.) Org_parent_key (foreign key to or