I am building a database to store personal collections of books... Users will use my site to query open source databases using the isbn number... It is possible that i many people will use the site (like thousands may open accounts and start cataloging their personal book collections..)
Book data (author title genre, publisher etc) will be stored in a table in my database called Books...I imagine that the same book may appear many many times.. wouldn't it be better to record changes made to a book by each account rather than creating a whole new record of a book for each account that has that book... so each account would simply be pulling their book data off of one table which would then pass it rhrough a filter containing the changes made to that book if any by the account holder .. Imagine 1000 school chiidren each have he same book Lets say 30 of them make changes to the title but the rest leave it as is Can't we just record those changes instead of giving each child their own record of the book in the books table? Does Cake 1.2 have a nice way to handle this? Or is this purely a MysqQL questions I am building in LAMP 5/5 thank you for your response... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
