"Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"David Cressey" <cressey73@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:_dO7k.7468$qb7.996@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> "Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
[snip]
>>> The other programmer's reasoning is presumably exactly what he said in
>>> his
>>> email (the snippet that you included), the concern that there will be
an
>>> explosion in the number of tables. That he's not aware of the pitfalls
of
>>> his suggested approach is no great surprise...back in the day I surely
>>> designed tables like this also, I'm sure all of us have.
>>>
>> Some of us learned database design before we began designing databases.
>
>Most of us learn by doing, and it's during that process that you make
>mistakes. You're not seriously suggesting you've never made any?
There is making mistakes while learning to apply a workable
method, and there is making mistakes because one did not learn first.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.
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