Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 22nd November 2007 13:34

On Thursday 22 November 2007 01:19:07 Graham Stark wrote:

> There's a well established approach to modelling relationships in
> databases. After my last attempt I'm not going try to describe it:
> Google 'Relational Model' or 'Normali[s|z]ation'. Perhaps it is

Question to everyone else: is being told to Google 'Normalisation'
rude, or am I being over-sensitive?

> "computer science bollockese from the University of the Bleedin'
> Obvious.". But it made Larry Ellison rich, it was what guided the
> designers of SQL itself, it works for me and my co-workers, and it's
> actually pretty easy to learn (otherwise it wouldn't work for me).

Errr, yes, my point. If you've worked with pointers and data structures
in a "high-level assembler" (e.g. C) then most of this table design stuff
is pretty obvious.