Re: Select from 24 tables
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Sun, 02 May 2004 04:56:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Select from 24 tables | ||
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* Thus wrote Travis Low (travis@dawnstar.com):
> Hi Michal,
>
> Getting back to the original posting, I'm basically saying that I don't
> think it's a good idea to structure or restructure a database for the sake
> of simplifying a few SQL statements. Especially if the data being joined
> is in separate tables for a good reason.
The problem is that we're not talking about normalization in this
case. The OT post is using 24 tables for each letter of the
alphabet (Dont ask me how that number was derived.) So each table
represents the same exact scructure.
Curt
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