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Linking records through multiple tables?
I'm writing a game server. Similar to the Sims. Players can own furniture items they purchase from the catalog. There can also be rooms. Players can be in a room. A room can have furniture items of ...
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Designing a flexible and comprehensive restaurant menu database schema?
I am working on developing a MySQL database schema for a restaurant menu system inspired by platforms like DoorDash, UberEats, and Yelp. My aim is to design a schema that is flexible and can handle ...
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Best Practices for Storing Operational Hours Extending Past Midnight in MySQL
I'm building a PHP application to manage business operating hours, including cases where the closing time extends past midnight. I'm considering various ways to store these hours in MySQL and need ...
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Designing a database schema for a website related to my town's history
I am working on digitizing old photographs, articles, ephemera, etc. related to my town's history, and I've been tasked to put these scans I've made onto a website for the public to see. There are ...
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Is it a good idea to design a database based on the API response data types?
I am trying to design my database, where i have to save some response data given from an external api as a webhook.
This api will return me as well “referenceId” as an identifier, which i will use ...
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How to store a fixed length array in a database
I have a mysql database in which I have drafts, each of which contains exactly 24 players the order of which matters. I am conflicted between having a drafts table with 24 extra columns for each ...
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Backend Design: System requires both ElasticSearch and MySQL. In which scenario we fetch data from MySQL or ElasticSearch?
So, one of the backend system, having 5 resource types (tables) and some foreign keys as well, requires full text support for two of the tables.
Also, for some use-cases, we require inner-joins for ...
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Design MySQL database to store user workout data for Workout App
I am building a fitness app and I'm trying to figure out the optimal way to store the data is a MySQL database.
I would like to have specific programs (for example, 'get jacked'), I would like a users ...
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Database Structure for The Best Efficiency
I want a database table that can hold all of the group chat messages from all of the group chats.
The max amount of users per group chat would be 20.
The max amount of group chats per user would 25-...
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Database schema for two different types of elements on map
I wrote a software for a customer that shows clients on a map (Google Maps).
I store the clients on a table on the MySQL database (table clients) and show them on the map using markers. Each clients ...
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Database normalization for grade management system
I am working on a grade management system web app for a university and I came up with this database schema
How the app work:
In the user table I am going to keep all the users data and the ...
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Design a login system
I have a task of designing login system with the requirement below:
If the user login over three times, lock account for the first 5 minutes. The next failed 3 times login-in will lock the user ...
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Does it make sense to have redundant DB fields to improve query performance, programming speed and code readability?
I am a bit torn about the database design for a solution. I have the following structure: (only the relevant fields are marked with #)
+------------------+
| activities |
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| ...
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DataBase Design for frequent delete operations
We have a use case wherein we want to store incoming data and invalidate all the previously existing data pertaining to one parent entity.
ie Parent p1 --> has List< child> old_data ( already ...
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Should I decouple MySQL database?
I have two sites, one is a subdomain of the other. They both do different things entirely with one unifying goal.
My intent is to have the main site do a majority of the heavy lifting, and the ...
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