Re: Bad database design can cause unnecessary coding [message #179521 is a reply to message #179516] |
Sun, 04 November 2012 10:11 |
Tony Marston
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"M. Strobel" wrote in message news:afl0ueF96jhU1(at)mid(dot)uni-berlin(dot)de...
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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.
>>>
>>> /Str.
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>> Instead of nitpicking over the words I used why don't you try and show
>> how
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> Okay, leave out the nitpicking and take it as constructive proposal.
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>> 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
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> Sounds like a lot of work. Advice is okay, work must be payed.
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>> 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 :-)
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> /Str.
So even with all those years of experience you are still unable to reply
intelligently and constructively to the 14 points I raised in my article?
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Tony Marston
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