Chapter 8. Real-World Data Access

 

Adults should put in their work the same seriousness that children put in their games.

 
 --Friedrich Nietzsche

Almost all data-driven applications look alike. They need to fetch data across different tables, join columns, and filter data based on some user-specific criteria. Data-driven applications must also format data in such a way that it can be easily (and pleasantly) consumed by end-users. In this context, the organization of the output, pagination, and editing models are key issues. More often than not, data is made of cross-related tables in which parent/child relationships are necessary to define the data model and to extract a specific subset of information (for example, detail views and subtotals) quickly ...

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