Exactly! Jim.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal? On Jul 24, 2007, at 1:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having 20 to 50 different look up tables for just a description > text for the user, it's key for usage, and it's status is going to > be a hard sale for me. Having to adjust an interface with table > names and column names is going to be a RPITA. Go ahead and tell > me that it's all meta data. I dare you! ;-> Nobody is saying that your design is not efficient; it's just not normalized according to relational design. There are many, many great reasons to break the rules; you just need to know what they are so that when you do break them, you are doing so for a good reason. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
