Saturday, March 08, 2008

Something to add to your bag of tricks

When dealing with import buffer tables that you're planning on normalizing,
create the import buffer tables with both sets of fields (incoming field and
normalized field) so that you can avoid using a ton of alter table
statements, which are quite expensive.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

huh?

emeraldimp said...

Don't worry about it... It's mostly for me.

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