Database Structure Opinions Please

2011-02-12 Thread Gary
I am at the planning stage of building a database that will have a fairly large amount of different information. It is a DB for law firms, so it will have all of their contact information including a county. Also an individual lawyer will be listed. Add to that 2 description areas (one for firm,

Re: database structure

2007-07-03 Thread Borokov Smith
for all your helps T. Hiep -Original Message- From: Mogens Melander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 3:45 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: database structure On Mon, July 2, 2007 21:10, Hiep Nguyen wrote: take your advice, i looked in to JOIN and i got

RE: database structure

2007-07-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
: Mogens Melander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 3:45 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: database structure On Mon, July 2, 2007 21:10, Hiep Nguyen wrote: > > take your advice, i looked in to JOIN and i got the idea. but i noticed > that in order to use JOIN,

Re: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Mogens Melander
On Mon, July 2, 2007 21:10, Hiep Nguyen wrote: > > take your advice, i looked in to JOIN and i got the idea. but i noticed > that in order to use JOIN, don't you need to have the same column name in > both tables? i just don't see it in your example here. is there > something that i'm missing?

Re: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
n [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:53 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create relationship for this scenario: I have one table (tag) with the following fields: tagid, location, weight, grade,

Re: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Christophe Gregoir
any shapes you have. And your SQL statements will be generic, most of the times, regardless of the shape. Sincerely, Raj Mehrotra hccs - Experts in Healthcare Learning (516) 478-4100, x105 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, Ju

Re: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
78-4100, x105 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:53 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create relationship for this scenario: I have one ta

RE: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
j Mehrotra hccs - Experts in Healthcare Learning (516) 478-4100, x105 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:53 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion o

Re: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Borokov Smith
From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:53 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create relationship for this scenario: I have one table (tag) with the following fields: tagid, l

RE: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Rajesh Mehrotra
(516) 478-4100, x105 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:53 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create relationship for this scenar

database structure (fwd)

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
is this list working? my last post failed? re-try. T. Hiep -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:53:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on ho

database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create relationship for this scenario: I have one table (tag) with the following fields: tagid, location, weight, grade, heat, shape, diameter, length, width, height, ... (and many other fields) what i want to do is move the shape field in

Re: Arbitrary Boolean Functions as Relational Database Structure?

2007-06-09 Thread Chris W
e in Group X or Group Y, but not in Group Z and not user Q"? Is there a database structure and a corresponding O(log N) query that will quickly find for a given user what software releases may be viewed? Thanks. -- Chris W KE5GIX "Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminat

Re: Arbitrary Boolean Functions as Relational Database Structure?

2007-06-09 Thread Baron Schwartz
ay to structure a database so that other forms of permissions can be specified and translate directly into SQL queries? For example, what if, for a software release, one says, "to view this software release, a user must be in Group X or Group Y, but not in Group Z and not user Q"? Is the

Arbitrary Boolean Functions as Relational Database Structure?

2007-06-08 Thread David T. Ashley
er forms of permissions can be specified and translate directly into SQL queries? For example, what if, for a software release, one says, "to view this software release, a user must be in Group X or Group Y, but not in Group Z and not user Q"? Is there a database structure and a corresp

Suggestions needed for designing a database structure

2006-08-24 Thread Priit Laes
Hello all, I am currently working on redesigning a database structure for online translation utility called Entrans [1]. Entrans is quite nice piece of software, but unfortunately it has one major design flaw: it only supports languages which have only two plural forms and to fix this issue, a

Re: database structure question...

2005-07-08 Thread David Bevan
You may want to look into normalization to keep everything organized. However if you want pure query speed, you will have to de-normalize some of your tables to get optimum speed. Have a look here for info on normalization: http://databases.about.com/od/specificproducts/a/normalization.htm HTH -

Re: database structure question...

2005-07-08 Thread Ian Sales (DBA)
bruce wrote: hi... i'm considering an app where i'm going to parse a lot of colleges (~1000) faculty information. would it be better to have all the faculty information in one large table or would it be better/faster to essentially place each college in it's own separate table, and reference ea

Re: database structure question...

2005-07-07 Thread Mir Islam
You have not said what type of information you will be storing in this database. Is it going to be just faculty information? Even if it is just faculty information, you do realize that each school treats departments a bit dfferently. The faculyt maybe under different school, may specialize in certa

Re: database structure question...

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Kasak
bruce wrote: >even though this might mean i get a table with 5 million records??? as >opposed to say a 1000 different tables, each with 50,000 records? > >-bruce > > That's right. Databases are made for this sort of thing. If you have a separate table for each location, constructing queries to p

RE: database structure question...

2005-07-07 Thread bruce
-bruce -Original Message- From: Devananda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: database structure question... I would strongly recommend creating one table, with a column that stores the colleg

Re: database structure question...

2005-07-07 Thread Devananda
I would strongly recommend creating one table, with a column that stores the college_ID for each faculty member, and a separate table to correlate college name and college_id. For example... Create table faculty ( last_name varchar(50), first_name varchar(50), college_id

RE: database structure question...

2005-07-07 Thread bruce
@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: database structure question... bruce wrote: >hi... > >i'm considering an app where i'm going to parse a lot of colleges (~1000) >faculty information. would it be better to have all the faculty information >in one large table or would it be better/faster

Re: database structure question...

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Kasak
bruce wrote: >hi... > >i'm considering an app where i'm going to parse a lot of colleges (~1000) >faculty information. would it be better to have all the faculty information >in one large table or would it be better/faster to essentially place each >college in it's own separate table, and referenc

database structure question...

2005-07-07 Thread bruce
hi... i'm considering an app where i'm going to parse a lot of colleges (~1000) faculty information. would it be better to have all the faculty information in one large table or would it be better/faster to essentially place each college in it's own separate table, and reference each table by a co

RE: Database structure

2004-05-11 Thread Donny Simonton
Ronan Lucio > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Database structure > > Where did you read that 25 million records would be a problem? I've > heard of people with billions of records in one table. The only > question would be performance, but indexes would largely take care of

Re: Database structure

2004-05-11 Thread Brent Baisley
Where did you read that 25 million records would be a problem? I've heard of people with billions of records in one table. The only question would be performance, but indexes would largely take care of that. You may run into issues with the physical size of the table and the underlying OS not b

Database structure

2004-05-11 Thread Ronan Lucio
Hi, I´m working in a project of a database that should be grow to more than 25,000,000 of clients. For all I´ve read in MySQL manual pages it´s too much records to place in only one table. So, my main doubt is how to divide it. I divide the client table in few tables according with the different

Re: [mysql] replication of database structure changes

2004-05-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 04), Jim said: > Do changes in database structure replicate to the slaves from the > master? Is there a document somewhere in the manual (I have not > found one) that explains what gets replicated and what does not? > Specifically, does an ALTER TABLE ge

[mysql] replication of database structure changes

2004-05-04 Thread Jim
Hi List, Do changes in database structure replicate to the slaves from the master? Is there a document somewhere in the manual (I have not found one) that explains what gets replicated and what does not? Specifically, does an ALTER TABLE get replicated? There is some mention that

Re: Database structure

2004-04-30 Thread beacker
> The schema is : > Patients(#patient_nr,name,etc...) > Assessment(#assessment_nr, #patient_nr, assessment_type, other usefull > values). > Assessment_types(assessment_type, labtest_nr) > An assessment is composed of different tests, let's say assessment type 1 > is > composed of lab test 1,2,3,5 a

Re: Database structure

2004-04-30 Thread Daniel Clark
I used to program for a medical tester. I used method 2: 2 - a table with 60 rows for one assessment : results(#assessment_nr, labtest_nr, p, d) where p and d are my two results. The BIG advantage was changes to the tests, adding new ones, or deleting fields. Made it much more flexible.

Database structure

2004-04-30 Thread Alain Reymond
Hello, I would like an advise on the following problem : I have a table of patients. Each patient can make different biological assessments. Each assessment is always decomposed into different laboratory tests. A laboratory test is made of a test number and two values coming from analysers. Th

re: On database structure -- keys and speed

2004-02-22 Thread Jeremy March
> I didn't key the placename because they're not guaranteed to be >unique, but that means that a search for "Artesia" takes many (~30) >seconds to complete, which is really not very useful. You should not use the placename as a PRIMARY KEY, but it can still have an index. You really should add a

On database structure -- keys and speed

2004-02-22 Thread Bryan Harris
Hi, all, I'm still very much a newbie at MySQL, and thought a good starter project would be a simple places database of every populated place-name in the world along with its latitude and longitude. I already have the data, and originally planned to have only 4 tables with 2-4 fields each: Pla

Re: Export Database Structure sans data

2004-01-26 Thread Adam Goldstein
n 26, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Daniel Kasak wrote: David Perron wrote: Im looknig for the function that will allow me to export the database structure into a static file, without the actual data. I would like to create an ERD diagram with the output file. David mysqldump -d -- Daniel Kasak IT Dev

Re: Export Database Structure sans data

2004-01-26 Thread Daniel Kasak
David Perron wrote: Im looknig for the function that will allow me to export the database structure into a static file, without the actual data. I would like to create an ERD diagram with the output file. David mysqldump -d -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77

Export Database Structure sans data

2004-01-26 Thread David Perron
Im looknig for the function that will allow me to export the database structure into a static file, without the actual data. I would like to create an ERD diagram with the output file. David

Re: Where to find advice on database structure/design?

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Frazier
It might also help to at least try to understand why you normalize. Don't just try to follow the rules, there is some art to it as well. My favorite book on this is "Database Design for Mere Mortals" Thanks, Eric At 09:11 PM 10/22/03 -0700, olinux wrote: >Read up on database normalization. (

Re: Where to find advice on database structure/design?

2003-10-22 Thread olinux
Read up on database normalization. (do a search on your favorite search engine) It will give you an appreciation of storing related pieces of info in different tables. Though you shouldn't need a series of forms to access the data (most of the time) - this has more to do with your programming logic

Where to find advice on database structure/design?

2003-10-22 Thread Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
I have moved our database from Access to MySQL, but I did leave same structure. Problem is that in our business we deal with companies that have multiple branches so having it like we have now with sub queries and subforms that have to look up info from 3 tables to give me one record of contact inf

Re: Database Structure

2002-10-10 Thread Frank Gates
Stephanie, Without knowing the architecture of your program I cannot give a precise answer. But I'll make a few stabs at it... First, MySQL, being an application in its own right, can be installed separately from your application. Alternately, your application's installation program could incl

Re: Database Structure

2002-10-10 Thread Leo Przybylski
Stephanie, Connector/J takes advantage of client/server architecture over TCP. This means that the MySQL server could exist on one machine (a server), and the client application(s) can connect to it via TCP and Connector/J from anywhere that has a TCP route to the MySQL server. If Connector/J is

Re: Database Structure

2002-10-10 Thread David Lloyd
Stephanie, > Does anyone know if there's a way in MySQL have the same functionality > without installing the whole program on a users machine? I'm using a Java > program along with Connector/J and a MySQL DB. We are trying to make it so > the user doesn't have to install MySQL everytime they wan

Database Structure

2002-10-10 Thread Stephanie Piet
Does anyone know if there's a way in MySQL have the same functionality without installing the whole program on a users machine? I'm using a Java program along with Connector/J and a MySQL DB. We are trying to make it so the user doesn't have to install MySQL everytime they want to install the prog

Re: Database Structure

2002-06-18 Thread Francisco Reinaldo
How are you connecting to MySQL?, through MySQL ODBC I am assuming. I might happen that the ODBC driver for MySQL does not implement ADOX functionality. Have you tried to take a look to the MySQL++ API? You might have to create your own dll (or COM component) to modify the database structure

RE: database structure script

2002-02-24 Thread Todd Williamsen
I should have been more clear... http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqldump.html -Original Message- From: Todd Williamsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 10:03 PM To: 'Pax'; 'MySQL' Subject: RE: database structure script Yes..

RE: database structure script

2002-02-24 Thread Todd Williamsen
Yes.. Use the DUMP command -Original Message- From: Pax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 9:25 PM To: 'MySQL' Subject: database structure script Is there an easy way to create SQL script from existing database and use it to create a new database?

Re: database structure script

2002-02-24 Thread Doug Thompson
Yes. You want to use mysqldump. http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqldump.html On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:24:39 -0500, Pax wrote: >Is there an easy way to create SQL script from existing database and use >it to create a new database? > >Tks >Pax -

database structure script

2002-02-24 Thread Pax
Is there an easy way to create SQL script from existing database and use it to create a new database? Tks Pax - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/

Help with Database structure..

2002-01-21 Thread Egor Egorov
Noah, Sunday, January 20, 2002, 1:55:00 AM, you wrote: NS> The problem is that 20,000 tables can be a bit unwieldy for mysql to NS> handle. I don't think it will be a sore work for MySQL to support more than 20,000 tables, but it's up to a inode limit on the filesystem on your OS. As Russel K

FW: Help with Database structure..

2002-01-21 Thread Bret Ewin
-Original Message- From: Bret Ewin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bret Ewin Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:03 PM To: 'Russell King' Subject: RE: Help with Database structure.. You may also want to break the URL into pieces (protocol, domain, path, file) and index

Re: Help with Database structure..

2002-01-19 Thread Russell King
> We thought about having one massive file for all this data, BUT, we archive > something like 100,000 articles a day. We store articles for 6 months, so > this table would very quickly have 18,000,000 rows. Now, we need to select > a group of articles based on source and date. We also need to

Help with Database structure..

2002-01-19 Thread Noah Silverman
I need some help with a database design question: To summarize our design (I'll spare you a lot of the details.) We collect text files from 20,000 different sources every day. The actual file is stored as a text file. Each source has its own table which contains a list of the text files, dat

synchronize database structure

2001-05-25 Thread Dorthe Luebbert
Hi, I am looking for an easy way to synchronize two mysql-databases (only the sql-structure). I want to compare two structure dumps, find out the differences and get alter table statements as result. CU Dorthe - Before postin

RE: Efficient Query/Database Structure?

2001-05-17 Thread Chris Bolt
Create another table with an id column and a code column, and for each code insert a column with the id of the row in the original database and the code. Then do an SQL join to search. For example: mysql> create table example (id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, blah varchar(100), PRIMARY KEY(id)

Efficient Query/Database Structure?

2001-05-17 Thread Anatole
Perhaps this is a common problem: I would like to have a database field that contains multiple code numbers and later search for the presence of one of the codes. What I have come up with so far is using a "&" delimter between the code numbers to end up with a field like: 12&5&34 When searching I

building advice needed on database structure

2001-04-18 Thread Petra
I have a database project, historic building materials... I've designed 4 Tables like this (there are more fields which I didn't listed here): table products - primary key(productid) - product description ... table category - primary key(categoryid) - category description table subcategory - prima

Re: Search engine database structure

2001-01-26 Thread John Jensen
. On 26 Jan 2001, at 2:26, Tobias Talltorp wrote: > As I understand it, search engines use a "special" type of database > structure. They have a special table for common words/phrases and > another one with all the data. They link theese together by a third > one that cont

Search engine database structure

2001-01-25 Thread Tobias Talltorp
As I understand it, search engines use a "special" type of database structure. They have a special table for common words/phrases and another one with all the data. They link theese together by a third one that contains only the id´s from the other two, thus making the search much fast

Re: Database structure DIFF

2001-01-22 Thread Jan Dvorak
s or a mysqldump of the databases and comes up with a sql script: > > > > Alter table Table1 add myField4 int; > > Alter table Table1 change myField1 myField1 varChar(60); > > > > Yes, I can do it by eyeballing it...I'm just too lazy. :) > > > >

RE: Database structure DIFF

2001-01-21 Thread scott
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 1:48 PM > To: Cal Evans > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Database structure DIFF > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by "structural changes

RE: Database structure DIFF

2001-01-21 Thread Cal Evans
;ve made things clearer. Cal http://www.calevans.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 1:48 PM To: Cal Evans Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Database structure DIFF I'm not sure what you mean by "structu

Re: Database structure DIFF

2001-01-21 Thread scott
I'm not sure what you mean by "structural changes". If the the two table have the same number of columns and they are in the same order, you can do something like what I have explained below. It you included the table info from prod and test I could help you better (DESC prod;). # Create t

Database structure DIFF

2001-01-21 Thread Cal Evans
Pardon the newbie question but is there a tool available for MySQL that I can give it 2 databases and it give me the ALTER TABLE statements necessary to make 2 identical to 1? Specifically, I have a test and prod database. I've made structural changes to test and want to propagate them to prod.