Re: table design question

2015-07-29 Thread Richard Reina
Hi Peter, Thanks for the reply. So are you saying like this? Repair RID INT, Date DATE, Tech_ID INT, R_TYPE_ID INT 1 2015-07-28 3243 3 2 2015-06-15 1253 1 Repair_details ID, APL_TYPE VARCHAR(35), REPAIR_CODE CHAR(4), DESC 1 Refridgerator C

Re: table design question

2015-07-29 Thread shawn l.green
Hi Richard, On 7/29/2015 10:19 AM, Richard Reina wrote: If I were to create a database table(s) to tract most common repairs to different appliances I can't decide if it would be better to create one table with a long ENUM column that contains repairs that could be attributed to any appliance or

Re: table design question

2011-09-21 Thread Jan Steinman
> From: Richard Reina > > I want to create a US geography database. So far I have categories such as > state nick names (some states have more than one), state mottos (text 25 to > 150 characters), state name origins (100-300 characters), state "trivial > facts", entry into union. My question is

Re: table design question

2011-09-19 Thread Richard Reina
Thank you very much for all the insightful advice. I will keep the separated. 2011/9/19 Jerry Schwartz > >-Original Message- > >From: Richard Reina [mailto:gatorre...@gmail.com] > >Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:55 AM > >To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > >Subject: table design question > >

Re: table design question

2011-09-19 Thread Johnny Withers
I would design three tables: Table1 (states): ID, name, abbreviation Table2 (state_item): ID, state_id (from states), item_id (from item_type), item_value (varchar) Table3 (item_type): ID, item_name Into the item_type table you can insert: Nick Name Motto Name origin Facts SomeOtherDataPoint S

RE: table design question

2011-09-19 Thread Jerry Schwartz
>-Original Message- >From: Richard Reina [mailto:gatorre...@gmail.com] >Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:55 AM >To: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: table design question > >I want to create a US geography database. So far I have categories such as >state nick names (some states have more

Re: table design question

2004-01-29 Thread James M Moe
rmck wrote: I have "ip_address" and "ports" that I want to use in my table. I was just going to make each one a varchar. But was wondering if anyone has a better suggestion? Should I use int for "ports", which will have an index. Not sure how to store "ip_address". Use a varchar for the IP add

Re: table design question

2004-01-29 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Mark Matthews wrote: Jochem van Dieten wrote: rmck said: I have "ip_address" and "ports" that I want to use in my table. I was just going to make each one a varchar. But was wondering if anyone has a better suggestion? PostgreSQL ;-) It has a native datatype for storing IP addresses. That means th

Re: table design question

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Matthews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochem van Dieten wrote: > rmck said: > >>I have "ip_address" and "ports" that I want to use in my table. I >>was just going to make each one a varchar. But was wondering if >>anyone has a better suggestion? > > > PostgreSQL ;-) > > It has a native da

Re: table design question

2004-01-29 Thread Jochem van Dieten
rmck said: > I have "ip_address" and "ports" that I want to use in my table. I > was just going to make each one a varchar. But was wondering if > anyone has a better suggestion? PostgreSQL ;-) It has a native datatype for storing IP addresses. That means that things like sorting and subnet inclu