Posted by Ed Murphy on 04/16/07 17:29
news.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers - I'd kind of figured it was too much hassle to be
> worth it and unfortunately I've inheritied this database which is 3+ years
> old and has *a lot* of content in it, so redesigning the schema would be a
> huge undertaking.
The question is not how much content, but how many tables and how many
things looking at those tables. (And if you can create views based on
the new tables that look like the old ones, then you can avoid having
to redesign the things-looking-at-them right away.)
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