At 11:48 -0700 5/15/02, mike markovich wrote:
Hi All,
What is the convention for documenting the contents/purpose of a
column in MySql?
There is none.
Most databases I have worked with had a way where text could be
entered for each column that described the purpose and or contents
of the
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At 11:48 -0700 5/15/02, mike markovich wrote:
Hi All,
What is the convention for documenting the contents/purpose of a
column in MySql?
There is none
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Paul,
Thanks for responding. The ability to document columns, tables,
databases
guess I don't view the inability to store this information as
database metadata as an impediment to documenting the database.
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Paul,
Thanks for responding. The ability to document columns, tables, databases,
etc. seems pretty important to me. Why is this not an issue to others? Am I
approaching this issue the wrong way? Your thoughts would
Header/ Column Description
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Paul,
Thanks for responding. The ability to document
On 15 May 2002, at 16:06, Mark Matthews wrote:
I'm interested in hearing what databases you have used that have this
functionality? SQL server and Oracle do not, for example.
MS Access does. Also, it seems a bit inconsistent that MySQL has
metadata (the comment) associated with each table,
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On 15 May 2002, at 16:06, Mark Matthews wrote:
I'm interested in hearing what databases you have used that have
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On 15 May 2002, at 16:06, Mark Matthews wrote:
I'm interested in hearing what
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Metadata in the database is NOT a bad idea! It's a basic part of the
relational model, Codd's 4th rule. (E. F. Codd
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