Re: Bad idea?

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra_at_terra.com.br>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 12:27:41 +0100
Message-ID: <aqg73d$9brvj$1_at_ID-148886.news.dfncis.de>


Stu wrote:

> I think your missing the point. I will have combo boxes reading
> directly from tables, but my question is should all combos read from
> one big table (reduces the number of tables) or should one table
> exist for each combo. In both cases adding rcds will update the
> front end. See CELKO's reply.

        You are inverting the order in the modelling process. You must normalise your data, period. Then you can have as many different interfaces to it as you like. If you tie your modelling to any particular interface, it becomes inflexible in the long run.

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