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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/17/06 00:16
Shwetabh (shwetabhgoel@gmail.com) writes:
> Well, apparently, since the dataabse will be used for Label printing,
> the DBA has to change the schema by adding new fields according to the
> requirements. Do you suggest instead of normalising the database I
> should create a single table which holds all the fields which will be
> used for label? Or is thr some better way out. Now, since I am
> converting legacy database, it should be possible to add data to the
> table through a single query which I cannot really foresee happening in
> a normalised database.
> What do u suggest?
Since I don't have the full story, but just some selected bits and pieces,
maybe I should not suggest anything.
Generally, SELECT * is bad. You talk about converting a legacy database,
but I don't know if that database is even SQL Server. And how your
question about relational database fits into this, I don't really see.
If you could give a more complete picture of what you are up to, it
might be easier to give better advice.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
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