Re: relational reasoning -- why two tables and not one?
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:09:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Lawpoop,
> A couple folks ( myself included ) thought that there should be at least two tables -- 'donors' and 'donations' . But the poster argued that no, there would never be a holiday fund drive appeal sent out to all donors, or a year-end statement, or anything of that sort. So a single table would suffice. <
From your description it seems to me that the poster would like to use something quite simple, such as a wizard-generated bulk mailing which for example is available in MS Word. Usually such data source is a single table in MS Word, MS Excel or any database query on MS Access or superior systems.
I agree that the single table solution will not scale up well, is not properly normalized, but as you stated the OP was not interested in that and apparently had no need for it.
I would therefore vote for that beeing a misunderstanding of some kind.
brgds
Philipp Post Received on Mon Oct 19 2009 - 12:09:48 CEST