How do you pronounce Chasm Trap?

Should it be pronounced Kasm trap or Chasm trap (As in Cheers)?

How chasm trap derived its name?


mkumar (BOB member since 2002-08-26)

A “chasm” is a deep valley between two mountains. It’s something that you can’t cross.

A chasm trap in a universe is a many >- one -< many cardinality. You can’t cross that relationship and get a valid result. So in both cases a chasm is something that you can’t cross.

I pronounce it as Ka-zum. I suppose the other way may be valid as well.


Dave Rathbun :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-06)

The online Merriam-Webster dictionaries pronounces it:

'ka-z&m

(You can also click the speaker icon there to hear it.)


Anita Craig :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-17)

That was wonderful to know. :smiley:
I hope you can also tell me how FAN trap derived its name.


mkumar (BOB member since 2002-08-26)

Also from the cardinalities.

A -< B -< C -< D

Each table further away from “A” gets more and more rows. It’s like spreading out a fan, the further away from the handle you get the wider the fan gets.


A -< B -< C -< D
  -< B -< C -< D
       -< C -< D
            -< D

Moving to General Discussion (from Off Topic) as this topic is actually relevant to BusinessObjects concepts. :slight_smile:


Dave Rathbun :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-06)