[dba-Tech] On coding alone

[Stuart McLachlan]

Oh Boy! Wait while I ge the popcorn.

We haven't had a rerun  of the "Natural v ANPK and do link tables need a separate ANPK" 
debate for years.


-- 
Stuart

On 2 May 2019 at 18:29, Daniel Waters wrote:

> Hi Arthur,
> 
> Nice Project!  I hope you can help someone with this.
> 
> I'd like to make a suggestion on your VolunteerSkills many-to-many
> table.  The PK should simply be sequentially incremented by 1.  I
> would do it this way because if in the future you for some reason need
> to change the PK of the Volunteers table or the PK of the Skills table
> it would probably be a lot less effort.  I think in general a PK
> should never be dependent on something that might change.  
> 
> In the same table I would also have a field for VolunteerID and a
> separate field for SkillsID.  The values in those fields would purely
> match the PK of their corresponding tables.
> 
> Somewhere in the past I ran into trouble mixing PK's with other
> information in the same field so I never do that anymore.  
> 
> All the Best!
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On
> Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: May 2, 2019 12:56 To: Francisco Tapia
> Cc: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech]
> On coding alone
> 
> A preliminary sketch. We have Volunteers, amd Organisations, and
> VolunteerOrganisations (since any Volunteer could join several Orgs.
> Volunteers have Skills (driver, cook, companionship, etc. That's a
> table. The bridge table is VolunteerSkills, whose PK is
> VolunteerID+Skill. So far, I am coding this is Base (Linux) and
> Access. The intent is to give it away to any organisations interested.
> 
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 12:30 PM <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Arthur,
> >
> > Add me in !
> >
> > Francisco
> >
> > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:28 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Tell me about the project and tools.
> >>
> >> On 5/2/2019 10:31 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> >> > There are two schools of thought here. One school is celebrated
> >> > by Clive Thompson's book Coders. which made me realise that that
> >> > as far as nerds
> >> go,
> >> > I'm in the shallow end of the pool. I have some idiosyncrasies to
> >> > be
> >> sure,
> >> > but over the past 40 or so years, I have come to realise that
> >> > coding together is better than coding alone; you can see a
> >> > shortcut that my initial code missed, a way to save milliseconds
> >> > off the operation of interest. At the moment I'm coding an
> >> > open-source project for Linux and Windows;
> >> it's
> >> > about Volunteer organisations. As is my wont, I'm using database
> >> > design tools to create it. I don't like coding alone. I prefer to
> >> > have constant criticism and contributions. So if anyone wants to
> >> > volunteer, I am most happy to
> >> welcome
> >> > you to the project.
> >> > Arthur
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> >
> >
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> Arthur
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