Database Design - Boolean Fields
Nov 12, 2007
I am designing a table where the object(s) that the table represents could have hundreds of boolean attributes.
Which method of design would you chose for this scenario:Keep the booleans in the original object's table, potential for hundreds of nulls in a rowCreate a 2 more tables, one that has the boolean value names & ID. Another that relates an object (in original table) to a boolean value name/ID. No nulls, lots of joining
So second method would probably normalize it, but I would suffer a performance cost, whereas the 1st method would be the easiest/quickest for joins but tons of null records.
Thanks
Ben
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Feb 15, 2004
Hi
This may seem amazing and a stupid question but:
Consider there is a parent table A and child table B and we want to write a query that has some fields from A and a calculated field which indicates whether A has any child record in B or not. The Value 1 means Yes and 0 means No. Has anybody an idea to write this in SQL Server?
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Jul 17, 2006
I have an application that reads a monitoring devices that produces 200 digital outputs every second and I would like to store them in a table. This table would get quite big fairly quickly as ultimately I would like to monitor over a hundred of these devices.
I would like to construct queries against each of the individual digital channels or combinations of them.
M first thought is to set up a table with 200 separate columns (plus others for date stamp, device ID etc) however, I am concerned that a table with 200 boolean (1-bit) fields would be an enormous waste of space if each field takes maybe one to four bytes on the hard disk to store a single bit. However, this would have the advantage of make the SQL queries more natural.
The other alternative is to create a single 200 bit field and use lots of ANDing and ORing to isolate bits to do my queries. This would make my SQL code less readable and may also cause nore hassle in the future if the inputs changed, but it would make the file size smaller.
In essence I am asking (hoping) the following : If I create a table with 200 boolean fields, does SQL server express automatically optimise the storage to make it more compact? This means that the server can mess around at the bit level and leave my higher level SQL code looking cleaner and more logical.
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Jul 20, 2005
hi all(happy raksha bandhan day)we have one of Automation software for sales running for acustomer.He was cool for the first month of product, but later poppedwith adding some extra fields.no problems i added in database , put aseperate code in my application for that field.but later every 2 dayshe was adding new fields.....so i thought to put in some inbuilt logicuser defined fields.second his user defined fields are like shoudl benumeric,string , length validation.But do not know whats the best wayto acheive this.I mean should i make seperate table where i definefield name, data types , validation and then in my application code ageneral logic for it in my application code.Any one has prooven designfor user defined fields,just thinking if i can even get a idea.....When i die i die programming........
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Dec 2, 2004
Anyone know how to do a bollean search on a database?
It would need to accept 'OR', 'AND' conditions.
Would it be a good idea to maybe create stored procedures and call these somehow?
Thank you in advance.
Michael O'Connor
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Jan 4, 2006
I have a general SQL design-type question.
I want to log errors to a table. If the error is with a URL, I want to store the URL. These URLs can be very large, hundreds of characters, but I only need to store it if it causes the error, which should be very infrequent. Which is the better design:
Create a large varchar field in the log table to hold the URL, or null if the error wasn't with the URL.
Create a foreign key field in the log table to a second URL table, which has a unique ID and a large varchar, and only create a record in this table if the error is with the URL.
One concern I have with design 2 is that there could be many other fields that are infrequent. Do I create a separate table for every one?
Richard
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Nov 29, 2006
I am using BI Dev Studio for SS2005 in a research (as opposed to a production) environment. Often I want to compare the results of multiple models using the same attributes. If I switch to a different model, the Design view completely resets. Is there any way to retain the same field names with different models in the Design view?
My current workaround is to give my models similar names with AR, DT, CL, LOG, NN suffixes and make global changes in the DMX.
I have consulted the following without finding an answer:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178445.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175642.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175678.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175637.aspx
Thanks for your help,
Sam
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May 13, 2015
I have a scenario like below
Product1
Product2 Product3
Product4 Product5
Product1 1
1 0 0
1
Product2 1
1 0 0
1
Product3 0
0 1 1
0
Product4 0
0 1 1
0
Product5 1
1 0 0
1
How to design tables in SQL Server for the above.
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Feb 13, 2002
Ok, I'm doing a football database for fixtures and stuff. The problem I am having is that in a fixture, there is both a home, and an away team. The tables as a result are something like this:
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Fixture
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fix_id
fix_date
fix_played
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Team
----
tem_id
tem_name
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TeamFixture
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fix_id
tem_id
homeorawayteam
goals
It's not exactly like that, but you get the point. The question is, can I do a fixture query which results in one record per fixture, showing both teams details. The first in a hometeam field and the second in an away team field.
Fixture contains the details about the fixture like date and fixture id and has it been played
Team contains team info like team id, name, associated graphic
TeamFixture is the table which links the fixture to it's home and away team.
TeamFixture exists to prevent a many to many type relationship.
Make sense? Sorry if this turns out to be really easy, just can't get my head around it at the mo!
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May 20, 2008
the subject pretty much says it all, I want to be able to do the following in in VB.net code):
{[If [table with this name] already exists [in this sql database] then [ don't create another one] else [create it and populate it with these values]}
How would I do this?
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Oct 29, 2015
I actually work in an organisation and we have to find a solution about the data consistancy in the database. our partners use to send details to the organisation and inserted directly in the database, so we want to create a new database as a buffer database to insert informations from the partners then make an update to the main database. is there a better solution instead of that?
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Feb 24, 2006
Hello everyone,I have a webcontrol that uses database-structures alot, it uses the system tables in SQL to read column information from tables. To ease the load of the SQL server I have a property that stores this information in a cache and everything works fine.I am doing some research to find if there are anyway to get information from the SQL server that the structure from a table has changed.I want to know if a column or table has changed any values, like datatype, name, properties, etc.Any suggestions out there ?!
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Jul 23, 2005
I have a system that basically stores a database within a database (I'msure lots have you have done this before in some form or another).At the end of the day, I'm storing the actual data generically in acolumn of type nvarchar(4000), but I want to add support for unlimitedtext. I want to do this in a smart fashion. Right now I am leaningtowards putting 2 nullable Value fields:ValueLong ntext nullableValueShort nvarchar(4000) nullableand dynamically storing the info in one or the other depending on thesize. ASP.NET does this exact very thing in it's Session State model;look at the ASPStateTempSessions table. This table has both aSessionItemShort of type varbinary (7000) and a SessionItemLong of typeImage.My question is, is it better to user varbinary (7000) and Image? I'mthinking maybe I should go down this path, simply because ASP.NET does,but I don't really know why. Does anyone know what would be the benifitof using varbinary and Image datatypes? If it's just to allow saving ofbinary data, then I don't really need that right now (and I don't thinkASP.NET does either). Are there any other reasons?thanks,dave
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Aug 16, 2007
Hi All,Can u please suggest me some books for relational database design ordatabase modelling(Knowledgeable yet simple) i.e. from which we couldlearn database relationships(one to many,many to oneetc.....),building ER diagrams,proper usage of ER diagrams in ourdatabase(Primary key foreign key relations),designing smallmodules,relating tables and everything that relates about databasedesign....Coz I think database design is the crucial part of databaseand we must know the design part very first before starting up withdatabases.....Thanks and very grateful to all of you....Vikas
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Sep 27, 2007
Hi All,
I am designing database where few of the master tables will reside in different database or in case different server. Scenario is
Server "A" with Database "A" may host the "Accounts" table.
Server "B" with Database "B" may host the "Product" table.
I am designing database "Project" which will hosted in Server "A".
My application requires this master tables [readonly access] as data inserted in my application refers this tables. Also there are reports to be generated which refer this tables.
How do i design my database and sql queries?
I am thinking of approach of having equivalent tables created in my database and writing service which keep tables in my database in sync. This will ensure good perfomance during transaction and reports as they will need to refer this table locally as opposed to different database or different server.
Any thoughts on above approach?? or any better/standard way for such scenarios ?
Thanks in Advance. Your inputs will be of great help.
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Apr 12, 2007
Hello:
My client has a db with the following structure:
Online US Searchable Map of the 50 US States. Users search criteria is the following: Query records by selecting state, county, then record. Each County table has 10-20 tables. All databases combined = 500MB and TLogs = 100MB.
How would you re-design a relational DB where users could query data by state-county-record. Currenty the DB's are created by the County of each state which creates hundreds of DB's in SQLServer with no realtionship to each US state. What would be the best design to ensure good performance, data integrity and maintenance? Would you create 1 DB with all 50 states, create 4 DB's and divide by region(N,S,E,W), 50 DB's of each state or leave it as is with each county it's on DB? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
thx
rob
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Oct 20, 2006
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Apr 10, 2007
Hi,
I need a hand with designing a database.
I am collecting results from a survey which has the following questions:
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I want to store this in a database. Obviously I want to use best practice for design, normalisation etc. The stumbling block I am coming accross is the fact that each question has a number and each question has a score from 1 to 10 and storing this in the database. Any help appreciated!
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Andrew
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Apr 26, 2007
I am creating database tables for company testimonials. Database columns: name, position, companyname, comment, service we provided.
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What is best practice for putting this db structure together?
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Andrew
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Can anyone tell me how can i design database architecture for the Table Category & Product...so that i can make N-level entity relation....I have database in SQL SERVER 2000.
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Jan 30, 2008
I guess I am confused about something and need some help. I am looking at a database schema for about 20 tables in a database. I noticed that the firstcolumn in each table Is some type of Id. For example StudentId,TestId etc.Where the Id is a unique numeric sequential value.
So I have some questions?1- Do these Id's act as what are called indexes for the table?(Unique indexes)2- If the answer to 1 is correct, then how do I create these unique indexes? Is it as simple as declaring the Id column as the primary key and that this value will be generated automatically upon insert? 3- Is it necessary to have an Id column for every table, or may I only do it for a few of them?4. In relation to Question2, what do I need to do, so that the Id column will automatically be created when someone inserts a value into the database table with an ID column.
For example here are two sample tables
StudentsInfo
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PersonalInfo
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Apr 17, 2008
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Nov 3, 2004
I have got a design issue.I have got 4 tables,having relationships.Now,user will edit records and save them,but I want to save the values which were exixsting before they were edited and saved.Implying,if a record is edited 50 times,then the values of each edit needs to be saved.How best ,can I achieve this.
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Oct 20, 2005
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Nov 10, 2005
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Dec 20, 2005
I am creating a knowledge base. I want the user to be able to choose a category such as Hardware, Software, Etc. then I want them to be able to choose what type of software such as word, excel, ets.
It will then display in a gridview problems, solutions, submitted by, last updated, and review date.
The gridview will allow users to update solutions and I would also like the ability for technicians to be able to add new Problems/solutions.
What would be the best way to handle this?
Any tips are appreciated.
Rick
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May 2, 2000
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Dec 13, 2000
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A category has one or mant sub-categories. A sub-category has one or many articles.
However some categories have articles but are no sub-categories.
Should I create a further relationship between Category and Article to cater for this instance or should their be a dummy category record in this instance?
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Sep 30, 2002
Hi everbody!!!
i first would like to congratulate this forum for the new member!!! ME ;)
Then i have this question, i´m going to design a database in SQL server and i would like to have some basic hint how to build it up.
It´s a calender for a ASP.Net site i´m building and for the moment it´s just 4 things to have in mind
-users
-dates
-todo´s
-birthdays
If something is unclaer then PLEASE ask me!!
Thanx in advance icaaq
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Dec 24, 2002
Hi all:
I am designing a sql server database to keep track of patient history and data about various diseases. Is there a book or any kind of resource that I can refer? Any help is appreciated.
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ndba
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Feb 9, 2001
I had a consultant design a database for me and every table contains a GUID. Most tables already contain a field that is unique. Is this necessary? In my view, the queries are no more efficient and it just takes up more space.
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Sep 30, 2004
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sql 2000 database and asp.
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Jan 14, 2005
Hi I was wondering if you could help me. I am currently trying to design a database. This database 4 tables, Main_Cat, Sub_Cat,SubSub_Cat and Prod_parent. How ever, not every sub_cat has a subsub_cat. And waas just wondering how I would link this.
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Ashley
I have attached an image of what I have so far, if any one could help it would be greatly appreciated
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