Re: Foreign keys?

From: "Jason Earl" <jdearl@yahoo.com>

> However, if you are going to do a lot of joins on your
> user table along the lines of:
>
> SELECT user.name, object.description FROM user, object
> WHERE user.number = object.owner;
>
> Then you might be better off simplifying just a bit to
> give you something like:
>
> CREATE TABLE user (
>        name VARCHAR(400) PRIMARY KEY
> );
>
> CREATE TABLE object (
>        owner VARCHAR(400) REFERENCES user NOT NULL,
>        description VARCHAR(200)
> );
>
> That would save you having to join the table to find
> the user.name at the expense of using more hard drive
> space.

I'm curious - are you speaking from a performance viewpoint here, or just
about simplifying queries (in which case I'd just slap a view on top)?

- Richard Huxton