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What's a good way of naming date/datetime fields? Can't decide if I want to use things like expiry_date, end_tme, created_on, or simply expires, modified.
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Hi,
I new in database design.
What is better option for product attribute database design for cms?(Please suggest other options also).
option 1: 1 table
products{
id
product_name
color
price
attribute_name1
attribute_value1
attribute_name2
attribute_value2
attribute_name3
attribute_value3
}
option…
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Investing in proper database design is a very efficient way to cut maintenance costs. If we expect a system to last, we need to make sure it has a good solid foundation - high quality database design. Surely we can and sometimes do cut corners and save on database design to get things done faster…
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I am creating a database that will help keep track of which employees have been on a certain training course. I would like to get some guidance on the best way to design the database.
Specifically, each employee must attend the training course each year and my database needs to keep a history of…
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By fiscal year I mean all the data in the database (in all tables) that occurred in the particular year. Lets say that we are building an application that allows user to choose from different years.
What way of implementing this would you prefer, and why:
Separate fiscal year data based on multiple…
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I have a new table I'm going to add to a bunch of other summarized data, basically to take some of the load off by calculating weekly avgs.
My question is whether I would be better off with one model over the other. One model with days of the week as a column with an additional column for price…
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Hi,
We are designing a SQL Server database with link tables for many-to-many relations.
The question is are there any best practices for naming these kinds of tables for use with the entity framework?
Let's say there's a table
Customer
and
Address
Then there is a link table between them, what…
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While other questions have tackled the broader category of sequences and modules, I ask this very specific question:
"What naming convention do you use for dictionaries and why?"
Some naming convention samples I have been considering:
# 'value' is the data type stored in the map, while 'key' is…
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A long long long time ago (in 2006 in fact) I published a blog post entitled Suggested Best Practises and naming conventions in which I suggested a bunch of acronyms that folks could use to prefix object names in their SSIS packages, thus allowing easier identification of those objects in log records…
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Maybe it’s just me, but with some of the MS Products being released in 2010 with "2010" in their product name, is the naming of the SQL Server product suite being released with product name that doesn’t make sense, our latest SQL Server Release which is now just about to be released is "SQL…
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User interface for web applications in general contain various buttons for performing CRUD operations. What would be the suggested naming convention for button labels while performing the following actions..
User creation (Add User... or Add User or Add user)
Event creation (Add Event... or Add…
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