Brandon Savage's Blog: Designing Databases: Picking The Right Da...

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Fri, 11/20/2009 - 12:29

Brandon Savage has a new post that looks at planning databases for your applications, specifically in the context of picking the right data types for what you're going to store.

When I started writing this blog post, I had titled it "Tips for Designing Databases" and I planned to talk about various database design techniques.

However, as I did more and more research, it dawned on me that one of the most crucial, and most overlooked, components...


 

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