RE: [PHP] tutorials on good database design

> Hmmmm... while there are abstract ideas which are generally useful > and prudent to adhere to, I don't think most people understand them > too well as abstracts and need concrete examples to map them to. > > Hence the employee contact database examples. And simple > shopping cart examples. :) True - I find the best way to explain database design to someone is by having them design a database (as with someone here last week whom I helped out with an office sports tipping database as a little how-to-SQL project) and help them out as they go. > Do you have some real-life examples that you'd care to discuss in the > open? Using real-life examples (with the added realism of budgets, > legacy code, deadlines, etc.) may help everyone here. I agree - throw us some examples of what you're thinking about, Justin. Jason -- Jason Murray jasonm@melbourneit.com.au Web Design Team, Melbourne IT Fetch the comfy chair!