Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-13 Thread Brad Eacker
Ciprian Trofin writes: >Basically I have some tables with only 2 fields (ID and name), and a >central table, joined by a one-to-many relation. The key point here are the >2-field tables. If I keep them separate, I can extend them (add new fields) >without problem when need arise. But if there is no

Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-13 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Carsten, Thanks for the answer (and other thanks go to the other guys that answered me). I think normalization is the way to go. I think it is the right thing to do (in theory). The problem is that theory doesn't fit all. Basically I have some tables with only 2 fields (ID and name), and a centr

Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-11 Thread beacker
>Cities (CityID, Name) >People (PersonID, Name) >Travel_Exp (ExpID, Date, PersonID, Per_Diem) >Travel_Exp_Cities (CityID, ExpID) Based on the descriptions I'd tend to go with a normalized table set of this nature: Cities (CityID, Name) People (PersonID, Name) Travel_Exp (ExpID, Date, PersonID, Ci

RE: Best practice on table design

2004-04-11 Thread Matt Chatterley
Carsten R. Dreesbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 April 2004 00:52 To: Ciprian Trofin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Best practice on table design Hi Ciprian, OK, I'm by no means a DB guru, so a) take this with a grain of salt and b) feel free to tear it apart if I'm completely

Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-09 Thread Carsten R. Dreesbach
Hi Ciprian, OK, I'm by no means a DB guru, so a) take this with a grain of salt and b) feel free to tear it apart if I'm completely wrong! ;] If in fact your people and city tables aren't going to change very often, then why don't you just go all the way and keep that informatio

Best practice on table design

2004-04-08 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Hello, I have the following structure: people - | id | name | - | 1 | John | | 2 | Mary | - cities | id | city| | 1 | Glasgow | | 2 | Madrid | | 3 | Berlin | travel_expenditures