David T-G wrote:
Well, I do, though I'm not surprised that I shouldn't. I still don't
know anything about left, right, inner, and outer joins; they sound like
belly buttons to me :-)
The best thing to do is find a website with some sample data and sample
queries and see how they actually work
Cal Evans wrote:
Always start with a *fully* normalized design. You can always denormalize for speed but it's real hard to normalize once you are in production.
I'd rather be 'stupid' about how normalized my data is and then write
caching into my program (or use MySQL 4's query cache, which
IMHO, etc.
Always start with a *fully* (ok, by fully I mean 3rd normal form...mainly
because I still don't fully understand 4th and don't even pretend to
understand 5th) normalized design. You can always denormalize for speed but
it's real hard to normalize once you are in production.
Vocal
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Yeah; I'm in the same boat
to normalize out to a table
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Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:17 PM
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