Bryan Carbonnell
carbonnb at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 10:28:37 CST 2007
On 2/7/07, Charlotte Foust <cfoust at infostatsystems.com> wrote: > I just skimmed John's reply, but no, that isn't exactly it. A star > schema is commonly used in data warehousing and tables have a > multiplicity of FKs for all tables they relate to. That makes querying > data a snap because you don't need complicated joins to get the data you > want, just filter on the FKs. So in the people table there would be columns for the FKs for Software, Hardware, Service Agreements and Facilities. The equipment table would have a column for the others, etc? -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!"