Re: A Design Question

2009-12-01 Thread John M
Even though it is outside the scope, I'd say start simple and build slowly with related tables, those are easy to add to a system. I'd probably find the attributes you'd like to capture in the 'extra details' and start putting them in a table. Determine what the purpose of these attributes are, s

Re: A Design Question

2009-11-29 Thread Steve S.
This /is/ outside the scope of Django. "Database normalization" and "Database design" are the google query you're looking for to learn more about this, though. Here are some links that may steer you in the right direction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization http://databases.about