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Which of tables key to reference?

MySQL. There is a table users with autoincrement primary key id. There is also a table employees (every employee is a user but not vice versa). The employees primary key is userid. The field userid ...
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MySQL - Normalization over meaningless data - Compound Primay Keys or Surrogate ID field

Please forgive my title; if you have a suggestion for it, feel free to comment. I have a database: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `books`; CREATE TABLE `books` ( `isbn` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, `title` ...
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Retrieving all PK and FK with pgadmin

I have a big database that I need to extract all primary keys and foreign keys from each table. I have pgAdmin III. Is there a way to do this automatically and not go over each table manually?
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Multiple primary keys

I am new to database design and have been looking at some example data models here. One thing I don't understand is if you have a table like client_addresses from the link above: ...
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Missing PK/FK after database migration

We recently had a server migration. A new server is now the PROD server, and what used to be the PROD server is now the staging environment. Apparently, the data was transferred correctly, but the ...
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Optimised Schema for City-to-City Distance Table

This is my first question, forgive me if this question is simple. I'm stuck here, trying to implement the relations for the data represented below. I want to scale it vertically (new rows), instead of ...
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Can I place the attribute in the Entity, when the foreign key is also already present?

I am using DBdesigner Fork for generating ER diagram. I have the 'Company' as an entity for which can I place the attribute of 'idShares', despite of having the foreign key of Shares Entity in the ...
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Are these custom module Drupal tables lacking foreign keys? mysqldump with table structures without data is included

I am troubleshooting a some tables in MySQL used by a custom Drupal module. Documentation for these tables is poor so I used mysqldump to get the structures in the Drupal database without the data. I ...
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Teradata: How to design table to be normalized with many foreign key columns?

I am designing a table in Teradata with about 30 columns. These columns are going to need to store several time-interval-style values such as Daily, Monthly, Weekly, etc. It is bad design to store ...
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Generalisation in databases

I am working on a Hospital Management project in DB2. I have one table for staff with a primary key of staff_id. The hospital has to have different staff... e.g doctors,nurses,e.t.c. Is it better to ...
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Question on Design for User + User Groups + User Types + Subscriptions Model

I am redeveloping an existing web application with both weak source code and a weak underlying database design. I'm trying to develop things in a way that future expansion will be much easier, ...