Re: Database design help

2010-09-01 Thread Shawn Green (MySQL)
On 9/1/2010 11:47 AM, Tompkins Neil wrote: I do have a tabled which contains both the managers_id and teams_id for the current teams managed. I think by adding the managers_id alongside the fixture_result table will then allow me to find which points the manager has accumulated alongside which f

Re: Database design help

2010-09-01 Thread Tompkins Neil
I do have a tabled which contains both the managers_id and teams_id for the current teams managed. I think by adding the managers_id alongside the fixture_result table will then allow me to find which points the manager has accumulated alongside which fixtures and teams. Cheers Neil On Wed, Sep

RE: Database design help

2010-09-01 Thread Jerry Schwartz
I strongly suggest that you make a separate table for the manager <-> team relationship, so you can keep a history. Put a date-stamp in there. This might come in handy as you get further into your design. I ran into this problem when one of our sales reps moved from one office to another, and t

RE: Database design help

2010-09-01 Thread webmaster
Hi Neil, May be your question is too vague. You have already identified the 'real world' objects that you want represented in the database. Have you identified the specific pieces of information that you want stored for each object ? After you do that, you can then start to see what the relation

Re: Database design help

2010-09-01 Thread Claudio Nanni
Hi there, I know you would like just a solution, but I want to give you just a little bit of background. Think in real life things(entities), think as you would have to do it on paper. [1] You said you have: managers, teams players and fixtures/results (matches) these are your tables plus...

Re: Database design - help

2009-09-06 Thread BobSharp
john.l.me...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 6:09 PM Subject: RE: Database design - help > given the following table layouts URLs:> URL_ID (primary key for URL)> URL_TEXT>> URL_CATEGORY> URL_ID (key which points to URL.URL_ID)> CATEGORY_ID (key which

Re: Database design - help

2009-09-05 Thread BobSharp
lworld.com ; mysql@lists.mysql.com Cc: john.l.me...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 6:09 PM Subject: RE: Database design - help > given the following table layouts > URLs:> URL_ID (primary key for URL)> URL_TEXT>> URL_CATEGORY> URL_ID > (key which

Re: Database design - help

2009-09-05 Thread BobSharp
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RE: Database design - help

2009-09-04 Thread Martin Gainty
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Re: Database design - help

2009-09-04 Thread BobSharp
helpful to me. cheers - Original Message - From: "John Meyer" To: "BobSharp" Cc: Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:56 PM Subject: Re: Database design - help BobSharp wrote: As a complete newbie in MySQL, I need a database to store URLs related to Tenpin Bowling

Re: Database design - help

2009-08-31 Thread John Meyer
BobSharp wrote: As a complete newbie in MySQL, I need a database to store URLs related to Tenpin Bowling. There are several Categories ... Equipment Manufacturers, Organistations, (UK) ProShops, (UK) Bowling Centres, Personal Websites, Misc., Coaching & Instructional websites, etc. There

RE: database design help

2006-12-18 Thread Jerry Schwartz
A lot depends upon the sophistication of the program you write to manage this. I doubt there is any way to create something so sophisticated with just SQL. My first thought would be to use three tables. Make sure every user has a unique use ID. The users' passwords would be stored in the table of

Re: database design help

2006-12-16 Thread Miles Thompson
At 12:54 PM 12/16/2006, you wrote: Hiya, Real easy quick question. I need to design a database which holds users with email, name and some other details. I also want each user to be able to create one or more groups of users, owned by themselves. What would be the best design approach? So far

Re: Database design help

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Blezien
OK, I think I got it now. Thanks for the additional info, that helps alot. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: "Mike Blezien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL List" Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 7:49 AM Subject: Database design help Hello, we currently have a small database s

Re: Database design help

2006-02-17 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Mike Blezien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL List" Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 7:49 AM Subject: Database design help Hello, we currently have a small database setup for affilates and visitor/leads. I believe we have a "one to many" application, one

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Klassen
If you give this due consideration, you may find that a lot of your problem evaporates and the rest gets simpler to handle. Just a general observation made by a disinterested third party; ignore it if you like :-) Rhino - Original Message - From: "Ian Klassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Buettner
at important and could be omitted with no important loss of functionality? If you give this due consideration, you may find that a lot of your problem evaporates and the rest gets simpler to handle. Just a general observation made by a disinterested third party; ignore it if you like :-)

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Klassen
:-) Rhino - Original Message - From: "Ian Klassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marco Neves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Database design help Marco, Thanks for your help. I created this example to try to simplify

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Rhino
you like :-) Rhino - Original Message - From: "Ian Klassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marco Neves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Database design help Marco, Thanks for your help. I created this exa

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Klassen
Marco, Thanks for your help. I created this example to try to simplify my real world problem. Clearly I didn't provide enough detail. Keeping with my example, essentially I'm looking at product details that change over time. Let's say I'm keeping track of boxes. Over time, the color or si

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Marco Neves
Ian, I'ld like to help you, but a more specific db design would depend on more specific description on your application needs. What I can say is that you need to adapt your database to your reality. What I got til now is that you need a product table, where you can sto

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Ian Klassen
Thanks Ed. That's another good idea. The consensus I'm getting is to create one table that stores unchanging data about the product and another that stores transaction details. The problem I'm still having is how to efficiently handle more than one changing value. As an example, let's say I

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Ed Reed
I built my inventory system like this, I have a products table that contains all the information specific to each part, less the quantity, i.e. Part Number, Description, Vendor, Color, Weight, SKU number, etc... Then I have another table that is my Inventory Tranactions Log that is just the

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Ian Klassen
At 06:27 PM 1/18/2006 +, Marco Neves wrote: Hi, Why don't you create two table: * a product table, with the product discriptions, and other product related info (call it prod): |ID|NAME|SOME|OTHER|FIELDS| |1|ProdA|..|..|..| |2|ProdB|..|..|..|

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread SGreen
Ian Klassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2006 01:09:55 PM: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to figure out a solution to the following problem. > > Let's say I have a store with various products. I take inventory of these > products on different days. At any given time I want to view what the

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Marco Neves
Hi, Why don't you create two table: * a product table, with the product discriptions, and other product related info (call it prod): |ID|NAME|SOME|OTHER|FIELDS| |1|ProdA|..|..|..| |2|ProdB|..|..|..| * a stock movements table, with moviments by p