Tagged Questions

1
vote
2answers
95 views

For a boolean settings table, should I toggle a flag, or insert/delete?

I have a settings table. SETTINGS -------- settingId int settingName varchar(20) Each user can choose to apply the settings, or not. The interface allows them to quickly toggle the settings on ...
4
votes
1answer
86 views

SQL Server 2005, Foreign key check against part of a table

I have an articles table that references a categories table. I'm defining the foreign key like this: constraint fk_categoryid foreign key (categoryid) references categories (categoryid) on update no ...
2
votes
1answer
363 views

How to design database for tree view with an infinite depth

I am trying to combine C# and SQL2005 for an application which need to have tree view control. One of user requests is to that tree view can user friendly grow into infinite dept of child nodes. That ...
3
votes
2answers
208 views

Maintaining referential integrity in a booking system

I am developing a second version of a corporate training booking system on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. I have 3 tables (simplified for this question). Table 1- CourseSize table- this determines the ...
7
votes
2answers
1k views

SQL Server: query performance (search 2 million rows)

Got an interesting one for all of you SQL guru's out there. Now this search is only taking a couple of seconds, but it's quite intensive and there must be a better way. Maybe I'm expecting too much? ...
2
votes
2answers
86 views

Adding Security to a legacy DB with Schema

I am working on a DB where almost every technical user has full read / write permissions on all tables. We are working towards removing permissions, gradually, from certain users, and I had hoped that ...
8
votes
4answers
471 views

Are there any good reasons for keeping date and time in separate columns?

I'm trying to understand our software vendor's decision to keep date and time in separate columns. For example, when the row was created or updated. Both time and date are DateTime columns. We are ...
2
votes
2answers
73 views

Is it safe to use “Safety” as a schema name?

I was considering using "Safety" as a new schema name in SQL Server. In SSMS, the term Safety is colored as a keyword, but this term is not listed as a reserved keyword in the BOL. The database does ...
5
votes
1answer
197 views

How can I design a table for quick versioning of textual data?

Version i am talking about here is not of version control systems. Like in SO i got some textual data(compare them to questions) that could be versioned(in the sense edited, saved, rollback). Content ...
1
vote
2answers
202 views

Designing a database tables for the following scenario

I just got following entities Employee, Client and Company. Where Employee and Client have one to many relationship with Company ie A single employee may be mapped to attend to many companies and ...
4
votes
3answers
310 views

Table structure for many custom profiles

I'm currently developing an bulk-email campaign manager that will allow customers to upload as much information as they would like on their subscribers. For example, I have a basic profile that is ...
4
votes
4answers
545 views

Speed problem with a simple select statement

I'm having a problem with a select statement taking way too long to run. I would like to know if I'm doing something wrong or if it taking this long makes sense. I am using Microsoft SQL 2005 ...
1
vote
1answer
249 views

What's the best paradigm or design pattern for exception handling in a mission-critical DB driven web application?

I want to design a bullet-proof, fault tolerant, DB driven web application and was wondering on how to architect it. the system will have a asp.net UI, web services middle tier and SQL2005 back end. ...