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TurdSpatulaWarrior
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 Posted - 2004-02-23 : 10:57:54
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Are any of you familiar with friendster.com or other similar social networking type sites? I was wondering how the SQL looks for a site like that where you can view someone's profile, and if will show you how you are connected to a person. For example, if i was looking at a lass named Diana, it might show something like:Me > Adam > Barbara > Chad > DianaI assume they are using a normalized database system (can't even imagine how you could do otherwise with something like this). Do you reckon they attempt joins on the table until one returns a result?I am faced with the daunting task of setting up something similar in concept to the degrees of separation type concept, however the relationship needs to appear inline with search results, like these imaginary results:4 results foundAbe - bla bla bla wordsAbe > Becky > YouBob_Dole - bla bla bla wordsBob_Dole > Curtis > Dan > YouCatherine - bla bla bla wordsCatherine > YouDean - bla bla bla wordsDean > Edward > Francis > Gort > You Anyone worked with a similar type system? This is going to be used to basically find the shortest fulfilment path for acquiring a product, however the concept and logic behind it is 99% identical in this case. Some places are affiliated with others and will relay said product(s), others will not. |
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ehorn
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2004-02-23 : 13:58:27
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| Have a look at BOL: expanding networks |
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TurdSpatulaWarrior
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Posted - 2004-02-23 : 14:38:42
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| Excellent information. I had no clue what the official term for this type of relationship is called. Thank you much horn. |
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Friendster/degrees of seperation SQL