Donna, Will any of the "non primary" documents be associated with more than one primary document?
Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD Google Talk - teddyrpa...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Donna Martin <dmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > Normally, I would not hesitate to create a self-join on an Oracle > table. However, in this instance, people from Africa are going to be using > the ColdFusion/Oracle site that I am creating on a very regular > basis. Their bandwidth is abominable. > > The plan is to sort documents based on document type and its association > with another documents. As an example, I will be listing a procedure (SOP), > and if record exists, all addenda, appendices, etc (DocumentTypes) -- hence, > the self-join. > > The table will not be huge-- between 2 - 3 thousand records. Is the > performance hit going to be great (Think 'very low' bandwidth here)? > > To make matters worse, there are also 3 types of training documents > that can be associated with the same primary document (the procedure in the > above example). At this point, I have opted to put these into another table > with an FK to avoid using more self-joins. > > Is this the best way to go? Let me know if you need more details. I'm at > a standstill until I get this resolved... > > Thanks much. > Donna > > PS It's been a long time since I have posted to this group...miss the > interaction! >
