Atleast someone else agress with me :) with my stiring the pot comment on cf-jobs-talk about not scoping vairables and then this I was begining to feel like this job was sucking me back into the dark ages of programing.
Adam H On 5/9/05, Micha Schopman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds too me like a basic normalized datamodel. > http://www.mschopman.demon.nl/diagram.gif uses a similair approach. It is > just way to keep things in hand when handling data with alot of dependencies > and modelling for future enhancements. > > ________________________________ > > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 5/9/2005 6:24 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: odd data model > > > Hey All, > > I always join my tables directly like so: > > TableA.PK_Field joins to FK TableB.PK_Field_fromTableA > > Like with products and categories..the product records have an FK back to > categories table via cat_id > > Now I've been handed with a data model that joins all tables associated with > lets say products via a central table that contains the PKs from all child > tables. So the central table would have prod_id, cat_id, color_id, etc > > Some relationships between the child tables are one to many..some are many > to many...all are held in this central table instead of actual relationships > between tables > > Has anyone ever seen data setup this way? I never have.... > > TIA > > Cheers > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > phone: 250.480.0642 > fax: 250.480.1264 > cell: 250.920.8830 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:206120 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
