Re: [SQL] Database design - AGAIN

2003-06-25 Thread Josh Berkus
Rudi, > I'll be using smaller tables with appropriate join tables and PHP. > Just for interests sake I'll be using Dia to plan the schema. > I prefer to use the UML drawing tools instead of the ER ones. I still use a simple flowcharting program to plan my databases. Never saw the value in UML

Re: [SQL] TR: Like and =

2003-06-25 Thread Dani Oderbolz
Nicolas JOUANIN wrote: Hi, Thanks for your help. In fact that means 2 solutions for this: 1) select * from pdi where rtrim(pdi) = '100058' or 2) Use VARCHAR instead of CHAR I don't which is the best , but both are working. Nicolas. Do you have a specific reason why to use CHAR? I use

Re: [SQL] Delete duplicates

2003-06-25 Thread Dani Oderbolz
Denis Arh wrote: How to delete "real" duplicates? id | somthing --- 1 | aaa 1 | aaa 2 | bbb 2 | bbb (an accident with backup recovery...) In these cases, its certainly the best to rebuild your table using a CREATE TABLE new AS SELECT col1,col1.. FROM old GROUPY BY col1,col2..