Re: what is better - one field or eight - mysql bit testing

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Kenneth Downs wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:


Kenneth Downs wrote:

[snip]
Anybody working with databases must have a reasonable method for
altering table structures as a regular event and a reasonable way to
synchronize
structures and the code that works with them. Not having this will
cost, and all solutions that seek to re-invent physical implementation
produce burdens worse than the disease.


I disagree. If you properly plan your installation, you will not need to
change
your tables. Over the years I've designed hundreds of databases; most of
them have never been changed.


Sorry to hear that.


My customers aren't. It's because the databases were designed properly in
the first place.

Sadly not all customers appreciate that. All some care about is the <beep>
dessert topping. I find that a trifle annoying. I utterly refuse to play
along with that. Oh what fun I would have, being a ruthless dictator. chop.
chop.


/Bent
.

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