Re: when to normalize out to a table

2003-02-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
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

Re: when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-15 Thread Michael T. Babcock
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

when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-14 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all -- I wonder if there's a best-practice line of when to bother to normalize data out to a table. Certainly I wouldn't want to have a table of integers and have a column in another table point into it :-) and almost certainly I'd want to point

RE: when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-14 Thread Cal Evans
://www.christianperformer.com * -Original Message- From: David T-G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:49 PM To: mysql users Subject: when to normalize out to a table -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all -- I wonder if there's a best-practice line of when

Re: when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-14 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cal, et al -- ...and then Cal Evans said... % % IMHO, etc. *grin* % % 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 Yeah; I'm in the same boat

RE: when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-14 Thread Cal Evans
to normalize out to a table - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e

Re: when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-14 Thread David T-G
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RE: when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-14 Thread Cal Evans
- From: David T-G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:17 PM To: mysql users Cc: Cal Evans Subject: Re: when to normalize out to a table -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cal, et al -- ...and then Cal Evans said... % ... % % product then has vocalRangeTypeID

Re: when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-14 Thread David T-G
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