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Re: Course <->topic [was: UU database: problem tables]
Makes no sense to me. Why not sub-courses? Every time, when we have 1-to-1 relation in the database, it's usually rationalized to having a single object. Can you show me the reasons to keep Course and topic separately?
2006/10/2, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya@total-knowledge.com>:
Alexey Parshin wrote:
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>
> 2006/10/2, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya@total-knowledge.com
> <mailto:
ilya@total-knowledge.com>>:
>
> Exactly. You never see a course that, say, covers
> Russian Literature of XIX century and calculus at the same
> time. Unless, that is, course topic is 'Advances of
> Science and Art in XIX century'. Notice how that is phrase.
> Specifically "topic" word there.
>
>
> So, if the course name is Russian Literature of XIX century, it can't
> be that it has several topics, say:
> - Novikov
> - Bulgakov
> - Breznev
> ?
>
> And, if these are not topics, then what are they?
Subtopics.
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