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Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding

From "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding
Date 2012-11-03 18:01 +0100
Message-ID <afl0ueF96jhU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (permalink)
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Am 03.11.2012 10:14, schrieb Tony Marston:
> "M. Strobel"  wrote in message news:afhg10Ff1jjU1@mid.uni-berlin.de...
>>
>> Am 02.11.2012 08:12, schrieb Tony Marston:
>>> When you design your database for your PHP application are you aware that some of
>>> your design decisions can have a detrimental effect when it comes to writing the code
>>> to access that database?
>>
>> All your design decisions can have a detrimental or beneficial effect. The word "can"
>> even is too weak, since the database design is the base of your application.
>>
>> I don't like the phrasing "code to access the database". What you want to access AND
>> use is your data.
>>
>> Maybe I am nitpicking, but precision in wording shows precision in concept. That is
>> what programmers need.
>>
>> /Str.
> 
> Instead of nitpicking over the words I used why don't you try and show how

Okay, leave out the nitpicking and take it as constructive proposal.

> intelligent you are by commenting on the 14 "bad" practices that I have identified.
> Do you agree with them? Do you disagree? Do you have any more to add? Or does your

Sounds like a lot of work. Advice is okay, work must be payed.

> limited experience not go as far as designing the databases that your applications
> use? Or don't you write database applications?
> 
Sorry, I forgot all since I managed DB2 in the early nineties. Forgot all from 15
years as IT trainer. Forgot more than others ever knew :-)

/Str.

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Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-02 07:12 +0000
  Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-11-02 09:53 +0100
    Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-03 09:14 +0000
      Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-11-03 18:01 +0100
        Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-03 15:03 -0400
        Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-04 10:11 +0000
          Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-11-04 14:37 -0600
      Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-11-03 19:00 +0100
        Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-04 10:18 +0000
          Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-04 07:29 -0500
  Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-02 06:48 -0400
    Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Goran <goran@nospam.com> - 2012-11-02 12:34 +0100
      Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-02 07:48 -0400
        Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-03 09:28 +0000
          Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-11-03 10:56 +0100
            Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-04 10:09 +0000
              Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-04 07:32 -0500
              Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-11-04 16:45 +0100
          Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-03 10:52 -0400
      Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-11-02 11:56 +0000
    Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-03 09:17 +0000
      Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-03 10:54 -0400
        Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-11-03 16:06 +0100
          Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-03 11:25 -0400
  Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-11-02 11:13 +0000
    Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-03 09:31 +0000
      Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-11-03 13:08 +0000
        Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-03 10:55 -0400
        Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-04 10:04 +0000
  Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-11-03 11:04 +0100
    Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-04 10:30 +0000
  Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-11-15 15:49 +0100
    Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-11-15 12:03 -0600

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