Justin Smith <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 8:48 AM said:
> What you have so far looks good, but what I learned from doing my > ecomm project was that it is beneficial to make a separate table for > anything and everything that you might have more than one of... > Addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses are all great > candidates for breaking out into another table. interesting you say that because i was going to do this same thing except not as completely as i probably should (which i think is what you are suggesting). what i mean is, my extra table of addresses was going to be merely shipping addresses for the customer and nothing else. but i guess i should change it from being just shipping addresses to include any kind of address relating to the customer? but what about phone numbers? i'm a bit unsure on that one. in my table as it is now, i have three: business, home, and fax. in what case would having a phone (number) table be beneficial? > I hope this helps. yes thank you. chris. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
