On 9/18/07, Matt Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:... > I suppose if you were a fanatic about data normalization you would create > a > table for 'lookups' and have it contain only ID and ItemType. Then your > lookup table has an indexed ParentID field (foreign key) replacing the > ItemType field. Not something I would do unless I was trying to impress a > professor in a class project.
It's funny- my boss forwarded me this article on "the next big thing" in DBs- >From the inventor of relational DBs himself- :-) apparently now everyone is going to be switching to "column" based DBs. It's the future, you see! I think Issac(?)* and I were discussing systems where we'd done similar, which is, interesting, but pretty cool for a CMSCMS type deal. I thought. I sorta laughed when I saw the article tho. *Maybe it was Aaron? Hmm... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288761 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
