On 8 Jan 2004, at 04:12, Paul F wrote:
Greetings, I am wandering under what circumstances it is
sensible/beneficial
to use multiple databases for a single project, and why.
The reason I ask is because I am re-developing an existing database
with
MySQL that someone else created with another
In our accounting software our users can manage the books for several different
companies with the same program. As such I have to keep a field (in every record) that
designates which company the given record is for and use it for report filtering,
lookups, etc. Had I used a different database
Sorry Robert, didn't mean to send to only you.
We're developing a management program that can manage several jobs that a
construction company is working on. We have a separate database for each
job that is installed in the program. This eliminates the need to keep an
extra field in each table
Greetings, I am wandering under what circumstances it is sensible/beneficial
to use multiple databases for a single project, and why.
The reason I ask is because I am re-developing an existing database with
MySQL that someone else created with another engine (DBISAM) and chose to
have 5 separate
