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Re: BI Portal site re-launches!
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Date: 
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:55:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Ross Crawford wrote:

You can make the update code simpler by using stored procedures and / or
triggers. You can write a trigger on "insert instruction" to add 1 to the
category count, etc., then whenever a new link is submitted the category
total is always updated correctly.

And once a day, run a script to recalculate all of the counts from
scratch, to make up for any bugs or irregularities or problems that
cause the counts to go bad.

Steve



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  Re: BI Portal site re-launches!
 
(...) Bugs?? Irregularities????? I've never seen such things! From whence do they come? Of course, I've seen many "undocumented features" 8?) ROSCO (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: BI Portal site re-launches!
 
(...) It also depends on the database usage - if updates are frequent, de-normalised databases start losing their efficiency, but with a database such as this, that shouldn't be a big issue. You can make the update code simpler by using stored (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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