Re: [GENERAL] What are the consequences of a bad database design (never seen

2005-04-12 Thread Jinane Haddad
Thanx guys for the advices. i think i will have to find some "POLITICAL" approach in order to restructure the existing database, which i am not so good at but worse trying. Note that even the code is Bad (they are using PHP for a big application - no object oriented design - a lot of code redund

[GENERAL] What are the consequences of a bad database design (never seen that before !)

2005-04-11 Thread Jinane Haddad
Hi everyone, i just got a new job in a small entreprise and they are using postgres as a database for their application. I was stupefied cause the database design is so bad : we can even say it has been done by amateurs. I observed the following problems till now: 1- redondancy ( TOO MUCH) 2- M