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  • P Paul Watson

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    peterchen
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    :ouch: Paul Watson wrote: Guess what I am doing... umm... designing the perfect example for bad table design? :cool:


    Those who not hear the music think the dancers are mad.  [sighist] [Agile]

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    • P Paul Watson

      David Wulff wrote: Seriously reconsidering the meaning of life? More like the life of the chap who made this table *dot, dot, dot* :laugh:

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      clever you!


      Those who not hear the music think the dancers are mad.  [sighist] [Agile]

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        Paul Watson wrote: The bad bit in this is initially 1 was true and 2 was false. Then someone else came along and said 0 was true and 1 was false. Good grief man!!! What the ... oh my! EAK! :eek: I'm sorry, I need more... :omg: :wtf: :omg: :wtf: :omg: :wtf: :omg: :wtf: :wtf: :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: :wtf: :wtf: Eak!!


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        David, that was a really fucked-up story - don't be stingy with the :omg:s now!

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        Shog9 The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under

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        • P Paul Watson

          *sigh*[^] Guess what I am doing...

          Paul Watson
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          My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

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          Nick Seng
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          If you think you have it bad... My company uses tables with 300+ fields, and it just gets larger and larger with time. Apparently this people haven't heard of normalisation. Grrrr :Misery Loves Company: X| X| Notorious SMC


          The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
          Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

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            If you think you have it bad... My company uses tables with 300+ fields, and it just gets larger and larger with time. Apparently this people haven't heard of normalisation. Grrrr :Misery Loves Company: X| X| Notorious SMC


            The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
            Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

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            And here I was thinking that one of our tables that contains 70 columns is impressively bad.

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              And here I was thinking that one of our tables that contains 70 columns is impressively bad.

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              I think ours started that way too, but along the process, the programmers started to add columns that were already there, bu they were too lazy to find.:mad: Notorious SMC


              The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
              Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

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              • N Nick Seng

                If you think you have it bad... My company uses tables with 300+ fields, and it just gets larger and larger with time. Apparently this people haven't heard of normalisation. Grrrr :Misery Loves Company: X| X| Notorious SMC


                The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
                Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

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                Notorious SMC wrote: The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain God made a jackass for practice, then He made a school board. Samuel Clemens "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)

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                  Notorious SMC wrote: The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain God made a jackass for practice, then He made a school board. Samuel Clemens "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)

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                  Roger Wright wrote: God made a jackass for practice, then He made a school board. Samuel Clemens Mark Twain fan ? ;) Notorious SMC


                  The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
                  Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

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                    If you think you have it bad... My company uses tables with 300+ fields, and it just gets larger and larger with time. Apparently this people haven't heard of normalisation. Grrrr :Misery Loves Company: X| X| Notorious SMC


                    The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
                    Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

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                    Notorious SMC wrote: My company uses tables with 300+ fields :eek: X| Must be fun writing stored procedures for those tables :-D 300 parameters later I would be ready to skin a cat with a pickle brush.

                    Paul Watson
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                      Notorious SMC wrote: My company uses tables with 300+ fields :eek: X| Must be fun writing stored procedures for those tables :-D 300 parameters later I would be ready to skin a cat with a pickle brush.

                      Paul Watson
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                      I might have been exagerating a bit....It's just 2-4 tables that has 300+ fields, the rest have a more manageble fields of about 100 ;P Anyway, I'm the R&D department now, so I don't have to ever look at those database again!! :jig: ~life is good :)~ Notorious SMC


                      The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
                      Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

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                      • P Paul Watson

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                        Paul Watson
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                        The worse that I've seen is char 10's being used as a PK for no reason other than "we've always done it this way" and some rilly, rilly clever individual spending the day working out a practical use for his sort-by-guid stored procedure. Run, RUN! Cheers, Simon "The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter.
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                          The worse that I've seen is char 10's being used as a PK for no reason other than "we've always done it this way" and some rilly, rilly clever individual spending the day working out a practical use for his sort-by-guid stored procedure. Run, RUN! Cheers, Simon "The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter.
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                          SimonS wrote: sort-by-guid stored procedure :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Oh classic. A GUID sorter, hilarious :-D

                          Paul Watson
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                          • P Paul Watson

                            *sigh*[^] Guess what I am doing...

                            Paul Watson
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                            You think that's bad? Some of our customers use a product called Visma, which they need linked to their e-commerce site. As a typical example, the price table has 94 columns, most of which allow null, with wonderful names like "SDc2P", "Un", etc. Guess who gets the job of writing the interface? Nice photos, BTW. Planning a new career? :-D


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                            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                              You think that's bad? Some of our customers use a product called Visma, which they need linked to their e-commerce site. As a typical example, the price table has 94 columns, most of which allow null, with wonderful names like "SDc2P", "Un", etc. Guess who gets the job of writing the interface? Nice photos, BTW. Planning a new career? :-D


                              "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                              Richard Deeming wrote: with wonderful names like "SDc2P", "Un", Un? LOL, ouch. My sympathies. Richard Deeming wrote: Nice photos, BTW. Planning a new career? :-O Thanks. I need to be a lot better before I can make it into a career though :)

                              Paul Watson
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                                Roger Wright wrote: God made a jackass for practice, then He made a school board. Samuel Clemens Mark Twain fan ? ;) Notorious SMC


                                The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
                                Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

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                                Notorious SMC wrote: Mark Twain fan ? Absolutely!:-D His "The Innocents Abroad" provides some excellent examples of good reasons why the people of the middle East despise Americans. "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)

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                                • P Paul Watson

                                  David Wulff wrote: Seriously reconsidering the meaning of life? More like the life of the chap who made this table *dot, dot, dot* :laugh:

                                  Paul Watson
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                                  My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

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                                  Paul Watson wrote: More like the life of the chap who made this table *dot, dot, dot* :laugh::laugh: Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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                                  • P Paul Watson

                                    *sigh*[^] Guess what I am doing...

                                    Paul Watson
                                    Bluegrass
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                                    Oh, I see it so often I put a recommendation about this in my article[^] I see dumb people

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