Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding [message #179516 is a reply to message #179504] |
Sat, 03 November 2012 17:01 |
M. Strobel
Messages: 386 Registered: December 2011
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Am 03.11.2012 10:14, schrieb Tony Marston:
> "M. Strobel" wrote in message news:afhg10Ff1jjU1(at)mid(dot)uni-berlin(dot)de...
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> I don't like the phrasing "code to access the database". What you want to access AND
>> use is your data.
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>> Maybe I am nitpicking, but precision in wording shows precision in concept. That is
>> what programmers need.
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>> /Str.
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> 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?
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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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