Posted by Steve on 11/10/06 02:04

| I had a thought, which can be dangerous, haha. Is is possible to store
each
| table definition in it's own file, and then simply have one file that
| references all of the others? Like includes in other languages? If this is
| possible, it would have many advantages for me and my website. Anyone?

look...is there *any* reason anyone would care about your db setup files but
you or an administrator? do not comment a bunch of crap in your db setup
files. you should have actual DOCUMENTATION that lays out the table design
of every table and also describes the relationships they possibly have to
one another. further, you should have that documentation describe the
overall strategy of the purpose of what you're storing and how your
structure supports that end. anything else is less than adequate...and
trying to do ANY of this directly in your db setup is utterly a misgiving.
that is, unless this site is solely for your own amusement.

hth,

me

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