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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:18:58 +0000
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On 06/11/2013 17:59, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:30:03 +0200, Nick the Gr33k wrote:
>
>> I have decided to take your advice.
>
> No you haven't. You only think you have, but really you either haven't
> understood the advice at all.
>
>> My implementation is like the following.
>> I do not use an extra table of downlaods that i asoociate with table
>> visitors with a foreing key but decided to add an additional 'download'
>> column into the existant visitors table:
>
> No no no no no no no no no no nononononono no!
>
> That's *NOT* the right way to do it.
>
> And this is where I finally and terminally give up trying to help you.
> I've had enough. You refuse to learn the right way to do it. You won't
> listen to the opinions and suggestions of people with a great deal more
> experience than you have in such matters. It's not going to work properly
> in the end. I refuse to be associated with it any further.
>

Queen "Another one bites the dust".

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Mark Lawrence