[GUSDEV] forgot this Re: sres.author table

[Junmin L. <ju...@pc...>]

Looks like these are the ghost tables, people never use it since 2002.
---junmin

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Junmin Liu wrote:

> Hi, all
> By looking at gus schema browser, I just realized that we have couple new 
> tables in SRes: sres.author, sres.bibRefAuthor. I searched the GUS tracker to 
> find the cause for this, but couldn't find any.
>
> I have couple questions:
> 1. why we need this? what are the use cases? I understand the "authors" 
> column in biblographRefernce may not be optimized, but I think practically it 
> works well, even you want to search for authors.
>
> 2. what the difference between this author table and sres.contact table? Why 
> we cann't use sres.contact table?
>
> 3. where is the documentation saying "when we use sres.contact and when we 
> use sres.author"? I don't find any difference between these two, except the 
> names.
>
> 4. please note in the FuGE uml model, or MAGE model, the developers simply 
> user "authors" column too, and don't borther to create this author and 
> linking table.
>
> Thanks,
> ---junmin
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