Re: Animation studio asset management

2012-12-23 Thread Chad Vernon
Thank you for the responses. The database would only be accessed internally by about 30-60 users max. An average show could add anywhere from 5,000-20,000 records over a period of a few months. We would do maybe 3-4 shows a year. Maybe a few dozen records would be inserted daily, updates would no

Re: Animation studio asset management

2012-12-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 23), Chad Vernon said: > I'm designing an animation studio database to track assets across multiple > shows. My original design was to have a "show" table to track which asset > belongs to which show with a show_id column. A couple coworkers suggested > having a database

Re: Animation studio asset management

2012-12-23 Thread Michael Anderson
Database performance (like system performance) is always driven by a give and take process, a trade-off between resources (this includes design expertise) available, and the required results. How many records are you dealing with? How often are records are being added and/or updated? How many u