Re: OT: Database design question

2002-11-21 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Janine Jakim wrote: 1. One student can be working on many goals so I have 1 one to many relationships. 2. Each goal needs graded every marking period (up to 6 times a year)- these are not traditioanl grades but a long comments piece) So goals have a one to many relationship with the

Re: OT: Database design question

2002-11-21 Thread Matt Robertson
Ack. Always keep one-to-many stuff relational on general principles. Its not that much extra work. --- Matt Robertson, MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com - Retail http://foohbar.org - ColdFusion Tools ---

RE: OT: Database design question

2002-11-21 Thread Janine Jakim
21, 2002 4:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Database design question Janine Jakim wrote: 1. One student can be working on many goals so I have 1 one to many relationships. 2. Each goal needs graded every marking period (up to 6 times a year)- these are not traditioanl grades but a long

Re: OT: Database design question

2002-11-21 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 03:59 PM 11/21/2002 -0500, you wrote: hmmm- I am very into keepting my database relational, but am wondering what the best route for thi particular issue is... Heres' the scoop 1. One student can be working on many goals so I have 1 one to many relationships. I suspect this is a many to

Re: OT: database design question re:product price changes

2002-03-31 Thread Dick Applebaum
You conceptually have 2 different prices 1 The Current Price usually stored in the Product File 2 The Order price (The Current Price when this order was filled) usually stored in an order item file along with Qty (extended Item Amount Optional) 1. is a status

Re: OT: database design question re:product price changes

2002-03-31 Thread Tony Schreiber
Agreed. Store the price the product was sold at in your orderitem table. You conceptually have 2 different prices 1 The Current Price usually stored in the Product File 2 The Order price (The Current Price when this order was filled) usually stored in an order

Re: (OT) Database Design Question

2002-01-30 Thread Jeffry Houser
This is how I would handle it. It sounds like a standard many-to-many relationship. At 10:17 AM 01/30/2002 -0800, you wrote: I'm putting together a new database for a fairly substantial application I need to build. Here is the kind of information I need to store: -- Registration of

Re: (OT) Database Design Question

2002-01-30 Thread Douglas Brown
. Doug Brown - Original Message - From: Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: Re: (OT) Database Design Question This is how I would handle it. It sounds like a standard many-to-many relationship

Re: (OT) Database Design Question

2002-01-30 Thread Clint Tredway
that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. Doug Brown - Original Message - From: Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: Re: (OT) Database Design Question

RE: (OT) Database Design Question

2002-01-30 Thread Dave Watts
That looks like it would work fine. I prefer to use two tables instead of 3 myself. less joining. [user] id[PK] name address [category] id PK user_id (FK_USER.ID) cat_name In your model, a category could only belong to one user. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

Re: (OT) Database Design Question

2002-01-30 Thread Jeffry Houser
don't believe this to be a coincidence. Doug Brown - Original Message - From: Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: Re: (OT) Database Design Question This is how I would handle it. It sounds like a standard