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List:       php-general
Subject:    Re: [PHP3] Database Design
From:       "Basil Hussain" <basil.hussain () reserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-11-08 15:03:32
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Well, normalisation is only really common sense. Even if you'd never heard
of it before, you'd probably think it up on your own in a quest to bring
order to the database madness you'd created without it. :) It's just the all
the jargon that confuses things. The basic idea is just to not store any
duplicate information wherever possible and to seperate out data into
unique, linked tables.

I spotted a new WebMonkey article the other day that explains it fairly well
(even it does go on to implement the example in ASP):

http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/backend/databases/tutorials/tutorial3.html

Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@reserve.co.uk)


----- Original Message -----
From: Sander Pilon <sander@3dnews.net>
To: Dean, John <DEANJX@mail.aramco.com.sa>; <php3@lists.php.net>
Sent: 08 November 1999 14:35
Subject: RE: [PHP3] Database Design


> 100% agreed.
>
> However, to do so - or even understand it - one would need a computer
> science related education, or an unhealthy affection for boring
> database-design books. A lot of people out there don't have that.
>
> Now, don't get me wrong here :) All I'm saying is that I think a lot of
> people do PHP stuff in their spare time, as a hobby, and have other
daytime
> jobs. Most of these people have never heard of normal forms and
> normalisation - how can you expect them to use it then?
>
> Sander


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