Re: Database naming convention (yet another post of it, but a bit different)

From: stu <smcgouga_at_nospam.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:46:06 +0100
Message-ID: <ao3ep1$4rd$2$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>

>Especially when it comes to cases where
> we have a table with one row.

Slightly OT but...
Are 1 row tables a good idea for storing settings? I usually set up the following table(s) to store settings in a database:

Setting(pk)                Value
pi                               3.14159265
maxReportSize           90
case                           12

etc....

then another (sometimes I store numeric and text values in the same column) for text settings:

What are the advantages / disadvantages with this structure compared to a one row table for storing settings. I realise my design is not normalised (at all!) but it seems to work well.

Cheers
Stu Received on Thu Oct 10 2002 - 03:46:06 CDT