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(...) I'm gonna hafta add these and the others and the ones from someone else a week ago all together in one swell foop sometime next week -- but keep 'em coming now! :) --Todd (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Here is some more set info for Pause! (Todd, some of the prices I have listed here are different from what you have in Pause. I don't know why, so you can use whichever you think should be there.) ---...--- From the 1986 Mail Order Catalog: (NEW) (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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More 1999 Set Info to add (From the New S@H Catalog): Space Port: 6452: Available now at S@H, for $3.50 City Center: 6425: TV Chopper, 36 pcs, $4.50 6429: 43 pcs, 2 figs 6434: 5 figs 6435: $66.00 6464: 331 pcs, $76.00 Star Wars: 7110: Landspeeder, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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The set number 256 is listed in the database as having no picture: (URL) picture of this set can be found at (URL) a bit worn. I'll blame my brother for that, as he, being older than me, probably got the set new. This seems to be the same set as (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) But writing a function is MUCH more flexible than the built-in export facility. PLUS you can write it such that you do not have to do anything but press a button to get this file generated, MUCH nicer, IMHO (or perhaps I'm just biased because (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I thought hork meant to toss your cookies? :) From Tom McDonald Anti-spam block in place. (URL) what you can, but behave yourself. We'll have more, right after this. (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) That sounds about right. (I'm on trial for this, right?) September-October 1995 was when those discussions were going on that resulted in the FLG being created... At least I listed to Joshua/wisdom and used "series" instead of "sub-theme." :) (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I dunno. This comment looks like it took place sometime around Sept. '95, and Deja News finds references to "sub-theme" and "subtheme" as far back as April '95 -- and Deja News doesn't go back much further than that. So I don't think Todd's to (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) 'Subtheme' was a term you suggested back in the days when Fibblesnork was more of a living entity, and you suggested that some terminology be laid out. It's the one that took off after that discussion. I don't think it was so much a case of "I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Eh, whenever did I invent that term? And what have I done to popularize it? The weird term I made up for the FLG was "series." I don't like subtheme either, unless there is also the concept of supertheme -- as in subcategory and supercategory. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) In case accuracy WRT TLG is important here, the actual hierarchy looks like the following (I may never forgive Todd for his invention of the term "subtheme" :-P) Product Programme +- Product Line +- Product Theme "Race" is a theme in the "Town (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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First off, let me state that were I designing this from scratch I'd do an object model not a data model but... (...) You need a hierarchy table. Model it like this (not legit SQL) Table Theme ThemeID integer PRIMARY KEY NOT NIL ThemeType Code /* (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Larry: Thanks for your comments, this is exactly the type of discussion I hoped posting this would generate: (...) Yes. (...) It is. I am still trying to figure out how to put themes and subthemes into a table. (...) This makes alot more sense than (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Jim Hughes wrote: Disclaimer: I am not a DBA but I do know enough SQL to be dangerous. Interesting. I comment on this as if it were a logical DB design. Do you have a downloadable schema (for erwin or whatever?) Some comments: Is recno designed to (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Hi: First, thanks for everyone's help with my earlier database question. Here is a new one: does anyone have a Lego database in a true relational format (with all of the normalization, etc)? I have come up with an outline that will hold all of the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Right, that's why the :) -- it seemed like an obviously good idea at first, but then I couldn't really think of many practical uses. (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Is that a real :) or mostly a ;) ? I agree that a PerlRE would be cool (and not really difficult to add), but can you give some concrete examples of search queries which would benefit in a major way from a feature like that? I can see a bit of (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) How about this?... (URL) least for the time being... --Todd (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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What I tell people when they ask is that I can't give or revoke permission to use the images on my site because I don't own them in the first place. I agree it's a nettequette issue rather than a legal one. KL (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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