Re: products db philosophy

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 39802
interpreted = N
texte = a detail.db would only be of use if there where more than one description per product in the product DB eg a different description per country you sell that product or something.if there is a one to one manditory relationship between the product and its description then there's no point seperating them.3 mb is fine. on 1/11/01 5:30 AM, Donovan Brooke at dbrooke@ehg.net wrote:> Hello, > I'm looking for some advice from the admins here that might have gone through > this so I don't have to learn the hard way. (like I usually do) > > I have a products database. (will be approx a Meg in size or more with the > following) > > In the product db I have a couple short description fields. I also have one > larger description field. > This field could have text that is maybe up to a paragraph long. > > The only place this long description will be used is in the product detail > area. > I am guessing this larger field could tripple the size of our products > database. (perhaps 3 megs?) > > My question is: > In your opinion should I separate this portion out to a detail.db? > > Our Server has plenty of RAM and is a G4 PPC so I am not sure if there will be > a speed improvment separating them or not. > > Thanks in Advance for your comments. > > > -- Donovan D. Brooke > Systems Administrator/ > Assc. Art Director > Epsen Hillmer Graphics > > > I know I'm making progress when I look at the questions I have > asked in the past and think to myself... how stupid was that > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: products db philosophy (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  2. Re: products db philosophy (Andrew Simpson 2001)
  3. Re: products db philosophy (John Peacock 2001)
  4. Re: products db philosophy (Pat McCormick 2001)
  5. products db philosophy (Donovan Brooke 2001)
a detail.db would only be of use if there where more than one description per product in the product DB eg a different description per country you sell that product or something.if there is a one to one manditory relationship between the product and its description then there's no point seperating them.3 mb is fine. on 1/11/01 5:30 AM, Donovan Brooke at dbrooke@ehg.net wrote:> Hello, > I'm looking for some advice from the admins here that might have gone through > this so I don't have to learn the hard way. (like I usually do) > > I have a products database. (will be approx a Meg in size or more with the > following) > > In the product db I have a couple short description fields. I also have one > larger description field. > This field could have text that is maybe up to a paragraph long. > > The only place this long description will be used is in the product detail > area. > I am guessing this larger field could tripple the size of our products > database. (perhaps 3 megs?) > > My question is: > In your opinion should I separate this portion out to a detail.db? > > Our Server has plenty of RAM and is a G4 PPC so I am not sure if there will be > a speed improvment separating them or not. > > Thanks in Advance for your comments. > > > -- Donovan D. Brooke > Systems Administrator/ > Assc. Art Director > Epsen Hillmer Graphics > > > I know I'm making progress when I look at the questions I have > asked in the past and think to myself... how stupid was that > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Andrew Simpson

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