> > Emile, My English is not good ;) > > I am talking about two things. > > The first about creating articles with some author. > > And the soecond one about getting 500-1000 articles > > created with many authors , and getting creator's username. > > I do understand. But as said earlier, where does it stop? What you want > is a de-normalization of the database, and while that does offer extra > performance, de-normalizing the _entire_ database (because, why would we > stop at the creator username?) is a consistency nightmare. > > What we want is a more flexible way to fetch queries, I guess..
Yes, I think You are right. That way We could need to have topic name instead of ID in article topic field. Or article up name etc etc. I am not good at mysql and PHP , but maybe some fields could be string instead of int. So that way anybody could choose what to insert in object field. And it could be older versions compatible. Piotras --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
