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good practices of creating tables in mysql [closed]

Hi I was thinking of developing an web apllication using php and mysql. Application will give a professor the required data about the student. i want to design application considering Engineering ...
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Database Schema/Structure advice

Well i am reconstructing an already created application and was looking to improve this, especially with in the database structure. I want to start off with probably the biggest section and that is ...
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What is the right way to manage users data?

I'm trying to create a simple register login script with user profiles, I created a table with the following structure: +------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field ...
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Database design for changing number of fields

Google Contacts lets you to enter more than one phone number, or email address for a contact. You can add as many as you want. I don't know if there is a limit, other than practical list size. To ...
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MySQL database design help

EDIT: also posted on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12148715/mysql-database-design-check-in-system I am attempting to build a check-in system for an office building. What happens ...
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MySQL table locks solution -> InnoDb / Partitions

I'm experiencing many table locks in a MyISAM MySQL table that is pretty big (Constx10xGB and 15M rows). It's mainly caused due many heavy inserts. My current thoughts to optimize: Changing to ...
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keeping database columns consistent with documentation

For a project, the client wanted to be able to add fields to any item and have them be searchable. To make them searchable, that would require the fields to take a column, but that would make the ...
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What would be the best way to design a table in Mysql that handles read items in an RSS feed reader?

I'm working on an RSS feed reader, it is mostly functionnal. But after some time beta testing it, I noticed that its very slow running some queries on a table that handles all the items that have been ...