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Separating tables vs having one table

At the moment I have a table setup that looks somewhat like this: create table tbl_locationcollections ( id int(11) PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY, --(Primary Key), name varchar(100) not null, ...
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Column partially determining accepted values of another column, should be somehow normalized?

I have a table that describes a set of properties (yes it's metadata, in this case there's a valid reason to have it in the database); among other things I tell the type of the data that can be ...
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What is the real-world purpose of an optional 1:1 relationship?

I know that one-to-one relationships can be used to split data into multiple tables for performance or security and that it is used to create a is-a-relationsship. But aside from that things, what is ...
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Approach to Analyzing Database Requirements

When presented with requirements for a database driven system, I always find it useful to imagine a world with no computers, where data records were kept in filing cabinets and data was collected by ...
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Symmetric self-referential many-to-many

I'm trying to model a hierarchy of categories where a category can have multiple parents ( an overlapping tree model as described in this book ) I have the following tables video_categories int ...