RE: A join table question

2000-07-13 Thread Sean Daniels
> Why would your solution of a "history" table be redundant? You would > actually be reducing the data redundancy because your history table would > only need to contain the id field from the linkAB table, the > status, and the > date. If you store your history in the linking table you are redun

RE: A join table question

2000-07-13 Thread Dan Haley
edundantly storing the tableA_id and the tableB_id, as well as adding fields. Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: A join table question I've used the approach you illustrat

RE: A join table question

2000-07-13 Thread mherbene
I've used the approach you illustrate (sub-querying for Max()) before, and it works ok for us, but I agree that it seems likely to be less than ideal from a performance standpoint. One amendment of your iscurrent strategy that might make it more maintainable would be to use a trigger that automat