RE: Data Model Design question

2003-11-11 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Cohen, Michael said: > Thanks guys! I was figuring close to a million records potentially. > I gather from Jochem's question that a million is not "prohibitively > large?"  :) Even to be querying on all the time? It depends on the query patterns, but on properly sized hardware it shouldn't be. Pre

RE: Data Model Design question

2003-11-10 Thread Dave Sueltenfuss
ssage- From: Cohen, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 7:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Data Model Design question Thanks guys! I was figuring close to a million records potentially. I gather from Jochem's question that a million is not "proh

RE: Data Model Design question

2003-11-10 Thread Cohen, Michael
Any db fundamentals book recommendations? Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 11/10/2003 6:57 PM To: CF-Talk Cc: Subject: Re: Data Model Design question Cohen, Michael wrote: > Say you've got a COURSE table that rep

RE: Data Model Design question

2003-11-10 Thread Dave Watts
> You would not want to have a single QUIZ table with a > composite key of COURSE_ID and QUIZ_ID because potentially > this table would become prohibitively large, correct? While it might become large - very large, even - I don't think it would become prohibitively large. The same is true for yo

Re: Data Model Design question

2003-11-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Cohen, Michael wrote: > Say you've got a COURSE table that represents many courses. New courses will > always be being added to the table. Each course will have many quizzes and > questions that need to be stored. You would not want to have a single QUIZ > table with a composite key of COURSE_ID a

Data Model Design question

2003-11-10 Thread Cohen, Michael
Say you've got a COURSE table that represents many courses. New courses will always be being added to the table. Each course will have many quizzes and questions that need to be stored. You would not want to have a single QUIZ table with a composite key of COURSE_ID and QUIZ_ID because potentially