[geeklog-devel] Re: GL2 Schema

[Tony Bibbs]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Dwight Trumbower wrote:

> I did that again last night and I still get the same results. Everyone has 
> there own opinions. I tend to follow the works of Joe Celko (SQL Guru), 
> with my own changes.

Ok. As long as we have some standards we can live with and stick behind 
for the sake of consistency and for module developers I don't think it 
matters much.

> 
> Right now I'm trying a few applications to make the conversion of all three 
> dbs easier. Unfortunately there are not many db design tools that support 
> mysql, postgresql and sql server.  The ones I have found, I'm not 
> impressed. It might be back to good old manual way.

I think once you get the current schema in the various formats it will be 
easier to maintain them incrementally from that point on.

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