[Tfug] Any SQL gurus out there?

[Claude Rubinson]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:51:28PM -0700, Don Freeman wrote:
> In my experience most RDBMS setups have both related and unrelated
> tables.  If its convenient to store code in a table, why not? If the
> code is created to help maintain the data then maybe it IS
> related. :)

Experience != Correctness and Relational != Related.  If you've got a
standalone table in an relational database, that's indicative of a
problem.  The database is incomplete, denormalized, improperly
normalized, or just plain wrong.  And that always leads to problems.

Claude