Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/30/07 12:45

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Sanders Kaufman wrote:

>> I'm woring on a similar situation.
>> I've got a userid, username, emailaddress and password.
>>
>> But I also want fields for login_cookie, last_login, and parent_user.
>> I don't really WANT to create whole nother table to track that stuff, but
>> good design dictates that I should.
>>
>
> And what "good design" is that? Definitely not normalization.

Definitely normalization.






>
>> The question becomes - if I break atomicity for expedience's sake, what
>> will be the consequences?
>>
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