Re: table design question

2015-07-29 Thread Richard Reina
Hi Peter, Thanks for the reply. So are you saying like this? Repair RID INT, Date DATE, Tech_ID INT, R_TYPE_ID INT 1 2015-07-28 3243 3 2 2015-06-15 1253 1 Repair_details ID, APL_TYPE VARCHAR(35), REPAIR_CODE CHAR(4), DESC 1 Refridgerator C

installation problem of MySQL on OS Lion

2015-07-29 Thread Martin Mueller
I installed MySQL on a Mac Pro running OS Lion. The installation was successful, but starting the mysql server generated the following error message: Martin-Muellers-Mac-Pro:~ martin$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start Starting MySQL ... ERROR! Manager of pid-file quit

Re: table design question

2015-07-29 Thread shawn l.green
Hi Richard, On 7/29/2015 10:19 AM, Richard Reina wrote: If I were to create a database table(s) to tract most common repairs to different appliances I can't decide if it would be better to create one table with a long ENUM column that contains repairs that could be attributed to any appliance

table design question

2015-07-29 Thread Richard Reina
If I were to create a database table(s) to tract most common repairs to different appliances I can't decide if it would be better to create one table with a long ENUM column that contains repairs that could be attributed to any appliance or different repair tables for each appliance. All the