Re: Arrays instead of join tables

[Lew <lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

William Garrison wrote:
> I've never worked with a database with arrays, so I'm curious what the 
> advantages and disadvantages of using it are.  For example:

I am prejudiced against arrays because they violate the relational model. I do 
not see an advantage over a related table.

Arrays seem to me to re-invent the network database model, which lost out to 
the relational model decades ago.

-- Lew