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Re: Online LEGO Inventory Database
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lugnet.db.brictionary
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Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:48:42 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.db.brictionary, Steve Hodge wrote:
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> > In lugnet.db.brictionary, Steve Bliss writes:
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> > > Yep. A better approach may be modeling a set of properties. So a plate • with
> > > holes in it could have both the Technic and Plate properties. This would • avoid
> > > requiring a hierarchical classification (is that redundant?) system.
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> > Yeah, I agree. One of the other threads had come to the same conclusion • and
> > are curently trying to decide exactly which properties would be necessary.
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> Having a good list of properties at the start is a good idea, but don't
> hard-code specific properties into the schema. It's just a many-to-many
> relation between parts and properties. Assuming a relational approach.
It will be a relational database, and I tend to remove all hard codings
possible.
I will be designing the schema later today, and posting it for everyone to
rip apart =)
--Eric
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| (...) Having a good list of properties at the start is a good idea, but don't hard-code specific properties into the schema. It's just a many-to-many relation between parts and properties. Assuming a relational approach. Steve (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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