On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:26 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul McNett wrote: >> MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: >>> Ok, but the programmer who deliberately has two tables (Employees and >>> employees) should be shot on sight/site. <eg> >> >> No, there may be good reasoning behind it, that works for them. > > > I'm buying this guy the best steak dinner available if he can justify to > me why he needs 2 tables--one called Employees and another called employees. -----------------------------------
One possibility could be: All Capitalized are business data and all Lower cased are DW based tables preset for reporting. It may have been denormalized to stop joins for lookup meta data. Tables with dates would have had Date Dimensions brought in. One of many reasons. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Web and Windows Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ 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.
