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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/09/06 00:45
Shwetabh (shwetabhgoel@gmail.com) writes:
> Well I cant really do anything about the design for table2 because that
> is the way the client wants it to be.
>
> As far as table3 goes, I wanted to check the possiblility of appending
> the
> records of all the tables into a single table and check the performance
> and
> efficiency. I understand that table3 is a poor database design
> but the main motivation for doing this is to check the reaction of the
> application
> which will using such database.
>
> Also, till now, I have converted DBASE database into SQL database using
>
> OPENROWSET to import the data, I was wondering if the same database
> can be entered into a new table which can hold the data from all
> tables.
>
> Any ideas?
For it to be meaningful to merge table1 and table2 into one table,
there must be some relation between the data. Is there any such relation?
In your sample data PRT1 went with CAT1, but you did not indicate what
rule said that these two should go together.
If you don't know what you want, we will not know either.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
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