I just got stuck with cleaning up a mess of records for a group I
belong to - circa 80k memebers - that are being kept on a variety of
spreadsheets and Access databases by a bunch of different people.
Hopeless mess, it is. I happen to have a DB2 license I can use so
that's where I want to stuff all this data. I'm no DBA - done a lot
of programming for DB2/Oracle over the years even a bit of SAP stuff
along with some light weight admin tasks but when it comes to design
of a database to efficiently hold all this crap I'm, at best, a
tinkerer. After a bit of messing with it I find I'm quite good at
organizing tables so that queries take forever to run, so that's my
main objective - organizing things right from the gitgo. Is there a
good reference for design considerations/strategies around? I don't
want the full course, just enough basics to keep me from creating a
briar patch.
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Will Honea
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"Will Honea" <wh****@yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:Jx******** *************** ****@anon.none. net... I just got stuck with cleaning up a mess of records for a group I
belong to - circa 80k memebers - that are being kept on a variety of
spreadsheets and Access databases by a bunch of different people.
Hopeless mess, it is. I happen to have a DB2 license I can use so
that's where I want to stuff all this data. I'm no DBA - done a lot
of programming for DB2/Oracle over the years even a bit of SAP stuff
along with some light weight admin tasks but when it comes to design
of a database to efficiently hold all this crap I'm, at best, a
tinkerer. After a bit of messing with it I find I'm quite good at
organizing tables so that queries take forever to run, so that's my
main objective - organizing things right from the gitgo. Is there a
good reference for design considerations/strategies around? I don't
want the full course, just enough basics to keep me from creating a
briar patch.
--
Will Honea
Check your email.
Will Honea wrote: I just got stuck with cleaning up a mess of records for a group I
belong to - circa 80k memebers - that are being kept on a variety of
spreadsheets and Access databases by a bunch of different people.
Hopeless mess, it is. I happen to have a DB2 license I can use so
that's where I want to stuff all this data. I'm no DBA - done a lot
of programming for DB2/Oracle over the years even a bit of SAP stuff
along with some light weight admin tasks but when it comes to design
of a database to efficiently hold all this crap I'm, at best, a
tinkerer. After a bit of messing with it I find I'm quite good at
organizing tables so that queries take forever to run, so that's my
main objective - organizing things right from the gitgo. Is there a
good reference for design considerations/strategies around? I don't
want the full course, just enough basics to keep me from creating a
briar patch.
CASE*Method
Entity Relationship Modelling
Richard Barker
Addison Wesley Publishing
ISBN 0-201-41696-4
if you can find a copy.
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington da******@x.wash ington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
"Will Honea" <wh****@yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:Jx******** *************** ****@anon.none. net... I just got stuck with cleaning up a mess of records for a group I
belong to - circa 80k memebers - that are being kept on a variety of
spreadsheets and Access databases by a bunch of different people.
Hopeless mess, it is. I happen to have a DB2 license I can use so
that's where I want to stuff all this data. I'm no DBA - done a lot
of programming for DB2/Oracle over the years even a bit of SAP stuff
along with some light weight admin tasks but when it comes to design
of a database to efficiently hold all this crap I'm, at best, a
tinkerer. After a bit of messing with it I find I'm quite good at
organizing tables so that queries take forever to run, so that's my
main objective - organizing things right from the gitgo. Is there a
good reference for design considerations/strategies around? I don't
want the full course, just enough basics to keep me from creating a
briar patch.
--
Will Honea
It might not be the bad design (I mean NOT totally). You can also try start
your control center, and try the "performanc e wizard" to adjust your
configuration.
Of course, I don't mean you don't need to consider the db design. This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics | |
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