[mapguide-users] Does anyone use Feature Joins?

[JonnieGIS at PAT]

Sorry, this site is on MGOS 2.0.2 with SQL Server 2005 on a W2K3 box.


Jackie Ng wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone uses this feature (pardon the pun).
> 
> When I first started with MapGuide, this was the feature that was of most
> interest to me as it seemed like an easy way to link spatial data with
> whatever non-spatial databases we have around.
> 
> But after many bad experiences with performance, and some really nasty
> join bugs (mainly http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/502), I've have
> totally shunned using feature joins, and either resorting to either
> pre-joining, baking the data and refreshing the dataset at regular
> intervals, or using a spatially enabled rdbms that does the joins at the
> dbms level.
> 
> I've have followed the best practices guide, but is seems every database I
> have encountered has its own set of quirks that don't play nice with
> MapGuide.
> 
> Most of our clients were sold on the feature joins capability (well by my
> sales colleagues anyway), and it pains me (as an implementer, one to has
> to deliver) to have to workaround this feature because it fails to perform
> at a satisfactory level.
> 
> I'd like to hear other people's experiences with feature joins. Is your
> experience better/worse?
> 
> - Jackie
> 

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