[SQL] Conceptual Design Question

2008-06-10 Thread Bryan Emrys
Hello Everyone, In a text-heavy database, I'm trying to make an initial design decision in the following context. There is a lot of long text that I could break down into three different categories: a. Laws i. Only 1 country per law, many laws ii.

[SQL] Apologies to the list. Please ignore accidental thread intrusion

2008-06-10 Thread Bryan Emrys
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[SQL] One Text Table or Multiple Text Tables - Design Tradeoffs?

2008-06-10 Thread Bryan Emrys
(Trying to start a new thread instead of my accidental intrusion into another thread) Hello Everyone, In a text-heavy database, I'm trying to make an initial design decision in the following context. There is a lot of long text that I could break down into three different categories:

[SQL] Data Comparison Single Table Question

2008-04-16 Thread Bryan Emrys
I can handle this outside sql, but it seems like I should be able to do this in sql as well. 1 table: countries. 3 columns: id, name, price What I'm trying to get is a result of the price differences between every country. So if the data looks like (ignoring the id field) Taiwain 30 UK 50

Re: [SQL] SQL dealing with subquery

2008-01-16 Thread Bryan Emrys
Following up my treaty rate thoughts, if I'm trying to get the lowest treaty payee (and rate) from a specific list of payees for every possible payor country, the following seems to work, but is it right? I'm specifically wondering about the group by clauses. (Or if there is a better way.) [table

[SQL] SQL dealing with subquery

2008-01-15 Thread Bryan Emrys
Hi all, I'm having a conceptual problem with a subquery here - any help would be appreciated. I have a table treaty_rates with columns payor, payee, rate where payor and payee are countries. Sample set: 'US','UK',5 'US','Ireland',5 'US','Netherlands',5 'US','China',10 'Canada','US',0

[SQL] SQL dealing with subquery comparison

2008-01-15 Thread Bryan Emrys
Hi all, I'm having a conceptual problem with a subquery here - any help would be appreciated. I have a table treaty_rates with columns payor, payee, rate where payor and payee are countries. Sample set: 'US','UK',5 'US','Ireland',5 'US','Netherlands',5 'US','China',10 'Canada','US',0