Originally posted by Ben Brugman
> Order of fields in a table.
>
> Do you insert fields in a table, or do you
> append all new fields to the end.
>
> I prefer to insert the fields, but inserting a field
> can be cumbersome and takes some time
> in a real live database. I am aware that applications
> should not use any order, but there are also humans
> seeing the order of the fields in the database.
> (Checking which fields exist and using general utilities
> etc.).
>
> What is common in your world, adding or inserting ?
>
> ben brugman.
Adding. Inserting isn't worth the effort. You can always provide a
view with the columns in the "nice" order.
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Received on Fri Jul 04 2003 - 07:42:58 CDT
