Re: Normalization question

2005-12-10 Thread Rod Heyd
Thanks for you responses! This list has proven to be for useful to pick pick the brains of other DBA's. I think we are probably going to go the route of splitting the different pieces of data into seperate columns, while keeping the original product_id, since we have a lot of third party applicat

Re: Normalization question

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Stassen
Rod Heyd wrote: Hi Everyone, I've got a little debate that maybe you can all help me settle. I have three tables that I need to join, but there are performance problems with the joins due to some misunderstandings of my predecessor about what's needed to join the tables efficiently. Here's the

Re: Normalization question

2005-12-09 Thread SGreen
Rod Heyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/09/2005 11:01:38 AM: > Hi Everyone, > > I've got a little debate that maybe you can all help me settle. > > I have three tables that I need to join, but there are performance problems > with the joins due to some misunderstandings of my predecessor about

Re: normalization question

2002-10-21 Thread Richard Clarke
CTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 9:17 PM Subject: RE: normalization question Hi! I don't understand problem. Car can belong to only one Dealer, and one Dealer can have many Cars, therefore DealerID should be in Car table. Also Car can

RE: normalization question

2002-10-21 Thread Artem Koltsov
Hi! I don't understand problem. Car can belong to only one Dealer, and one Dealer can have many Cars, therefore DealerID should be in Car table. Also Car can be only one Model, but there are many Cars the same Model. It looks quite normal to put ModelID into Car table, and I don't see any possib

RE: Normalization question

2002-06-04 Thread Cal Evans
June 04, 2002 6:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Normalization question I have a question about the setup of the tables in my database. In my members table, I store a lot of info about demographics, such as marital status, income, etc. The way I'm doing this is the enum type. Is it bett

RE: Normalization question

2002-06-04 Thread Daren Cotter
t;correct" way to do this? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:24 PM To: Daren Cotter Subject: Re: Normalization question Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or simply off topic to

RE: normalization question

2001-08-20 Thread Rene Churchill
l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 7:34 AM >To: Daren Cotter >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: normalization question > > > >Hi Daren, > >How long do you need to store this information? The normalized table >that you describe is simple and e

RE: normalization question

2001-08-19 Thread Daren Cotter
aren Cotter CEO, InboxDollars.com http://www.inboxdollars.com (507) 382-0435 -Original Message- From: Rene Churchill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 7:34 AM To: Daren Cotter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: normalization question Hi Daren, How long do you need to store t

Re: normalization question

2001-08-19 Thread Rene Churchill
Hi Daren, How long do you need to store this information? The normalized table that you describe is simple and easy to index. Having several million rows in the table won't bother MySQL. So is it sufficient to keep the data around for a month and then prune it out of the database? Long term