Remember, working code is better than pretty code, on any day.
If you have a system that you understand and it works (without excessively slowing the system down or grinding it to a halt), then stick with it. Over time you'll learn better ways of doing things. But, your first goal should be getting it to work and getting your desired output, even though you may be doing it the "hard way."
On Nov 16, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Afan Pasalic wrote:
Jason Wong wrote:
You're not using your database like it should be used. Each invidually identifiable item should be stored in a separate column. Lumping everything into one column makes it harder to extract and process data. Google for "normalise table tutorial", or "normalize table tutorial" if you want things from a mainly American point of view.I mentioned Name, Address, City, ... just as example.
In my case, I use really just for ONE string that has to be written in several lines. I collect these lines separate, but, since the are one thing I put them together as one string (from now, using pipe to separate them). I really don't think I should use any of three normalization processes. Or, even as American, I am wrong? :)
-afan
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