| Re: Loop through array, change headings [message #184468 is a reply to message #184467] |
Thu, 02 January 2014 15:52   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 1/2/2014 10:39 AM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Peter H. Coffin wrote:
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>> Denis McMahon wrote:
>>> Norman Peelman wrote:
>>>> The whole idea behind relational databases is to set things up so that
>>>> you don't need to make changes like that.
>>>
>>> Norman, remember that richard is the guy that sets up a separate table
>>> for each year's records because that's more sensible (in richard
>>> land[1]) than having a year field in the record table.
>>>
>>> [1] Any semblance of richard land to cloud cuckoo land is probably not
>>> coincidental.
>>
>> I think there was something about that helping to manage the size of the
>> tables as well. Because any database will break if you put more than a
>> couple thousand rows into a table...
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> Peter, please don't recommend the place you found that information as any
> kind of reputable reference site. I've worked with databases that had
> literally millions of records in single tables.
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> If your "database" consists of an Excel spreadsheet, you may have a minor
> point.
>
I may be wrong - but I think he meant that was another richardism.
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