Thanks Randall, we got some great discussions going here. I think the
closing paragraph sums it up quite well...
So err on the side of caution and normalize your data until you have
the experience needed to know when to break the rules. If you always
normalize your data you will be correct
Lovely
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From: Caveat gam...@caveat.demon.co.uk
To: gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:04:55 +0200
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] [slightly OT] No Problem with Gambas or MySql!
Thanks Randall, we got some great discussions going here.
Hi all,
I've been working with settings quite a while now.
Today I realised some settings where placed under a new key a while ago.
So I looked at the documentation to see if I could remove the old ones.
Documentation said...YES
-- Gambas Docs on settings.clear --
Sub Clear ( [
On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 14:04 +0200, Caveat wrote:
Thanks Randall, we got some great discussions going here. I think the
closing paragraph sums it up quite well...
So err on the side of caution and normalize your data until you have
the experience needed to know when to break the rules.
On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 23:28 +0200, Willy Raets wrote:
Hi all,
I've been working with settings quite a while now.
Today I realised some settings where placed under a new key a while ago.
So I looked at the documentation to see if I could remove the old ones.
Documentation said...YES
How old is this database? Is it MySQL or MSSQL?
I ask because there was a time when databases did not support transactions.
So some db designers did indeed use temporary tables for what was called
scratch tables. These were tables where updates were collected over a
period of time and then batch
On 10/06/2013 07:08 AM, Jesus wrote:
Hi, Kevin
Well, as you know, screen coordinates start in the upper left corner and
grow towards the right in the X axis and towards the bottom in the Y
axis. Sorry if it's too obvious.
So all operations on an hypothetical spaceship, must be done on
