RE: MySQL database design documentation

2006-01-05 Thread Jimmy Guerrero
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Re: MySQL database design documentation

2005-11-27 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: Maurice van Peursem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:33 PM Subject: MySQL database design documentation Hi, I'm relatively new to the database-scene. I've installed MySQL on Mac OSX 10.3, which was easy. I've

Re: MySQL database design documentation

2005-11-27 Thread Ligaya Turmelle
A couple of good links for databases. Database Design (quick and dirty, but gets the points across): http://www.geekgirls.com/menu_databases.htm - the from scratch side SQL: Basics: http://www.sqlcourse.com (you probably already know this stuff - but just in case. semi-Advanced:

Re: MySQL database design documentation

2005-11-27 Thread Ben Wilson
Relational Database Design Clearly Explained, Second Edition ISBN: 1558608206 The original edition was my first primer on relational databases. It was an excellent read. Ben Maurice van Peursem wrote: Hi, I'm relatively new to the database-scene. I've installed MySQL on Mac OSX 10.3,

Re: MySql database design.

2004-01-21 Thread olinux
You can find a number of good starting point data models here: http://www.databaseanswers.com/data_models You might also check out some of the applications on sites like www.hotscripts.com and www.sourceforge.net to see how they have structured their database for similar projects. (or maybe you

RE: MySQL Database Design

2003-01-10 Thread M Wells
Hi Brian, By no means am I a MySQL guru (or any other database server environment guru, for that matter), but could you simply have a reference table that indicates the percentage of the grape used in the relevant wine? So, you might have three tables, Wines, GrapeVariety,

RE: MySQL Database Design

2003-01-10 Thread JamesD
ID a4 wine3 x 2 nulls ===end chatter -Original Message- From: Michael T. Babcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:09 PM To: Colaluca, Brian Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MySQL Database Design

RE: MySQL Database Design

2003-01-09 Thread Jennifer Goodie
Blend will be a cross reference with a one to many relationship This is very simplified but an example of your data could be: Select * from Wine; ++--+ | WineID | WineName | ++--+ | 1 | XYZ | ++--+ Select * from Grape;

Re: MySQL Database Design

2003-01-09 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Colaluca, Brian wrote: I have come to a brick wall on one facet of my design, however. I've come to understand that having a lot of NULLs in your database may be a sign of a poor design. And yet I'm having a problem reconciling this with the wildly un-uniform world of wines from around the

Re: MySQL database design, one column, 10 entries?

2002-08-11 Thread Quinten Steenhuis
You need to add an additional table, favorites. It should have three columns: favoriteID INT, userID INT, favoriteTypeID INT REFERENCES FavoriteType. Plus the additional column for the rating, assuming it's associated with a favorite. Each row represents a single preference (this way users

Re: MySQL database design

2002-08-11 Thread Pekka Saarinen
At 8/11/2002, you wrote: MySQL queries.. tables... design. http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~tlr7425/my_tables.gif There you will see a rough draft of what I am trying to do. Perhaps you will see some places that I will need to use a table_map? Or you can advise me of how to arrange my keys, or

Re: MySQL database design

2002-08-11 Thread trogers
on 8/11/02 2:47 PM, Pekka Saarinen, typed: At 8/11/2002, you wrote: MySQL queries.. tables... design. http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~tlr7425/my_tables.gif There you will see a rough draft of what I am trying to do. Perhaps you will see some places that I will need to use a table_map?

Re: MySQL database design

2002-08-11 Thread Pekka Saarinen
At 8/11/2002, you wrote: I believe that what you called intermediate table books are calling table map, or something with the word map in it. Hi Lloyd, Books are nice to have (you can lie down to a sofa or sit in the loo with a book), and what I started with (SAMS Teach Yourseft MySQL in 21

Re: MySQL database design, one column, 10 entries?

2002-08-10 Thread Bhavin Vyas
I am not very sure I understand the questionbut maybe column type 'enum' is what you are looking for. - Original Message - From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:43 PM Subject: MySQL database design, one column, 10 entries? I am