Questions tagged [database-design]
For questions about structuring the data within a database. How to lay out tables, whether to use a relational DB or not, etc.
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Exchanging data between two Microservices
I am facing this problem and would like to review my approach to it here.
A Client sends an HTTP request to Service A and is expecting an answer.
Service A is connected to DB A. When it receives a ...
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How to design entities to keep up with the depth of JSON objects?
To better context see Rich Authorization Requests for OAuth2
As u can read here there are some common data field types like actions, locations etc.
So I have created C# entity for EF as below:
public ...
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Preventing POST requests from being lost when database connection is lost
I am working on a project to stand up a central database to replace a current massive file-sharing/syncing system of physical log files and text configurations for the primary application I work on.
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How to design a database wherein multiple tags(string) are to be associated with an id per user?
I have a similar situation to the user here How to design a database wherein multiple tags(string) are to be associated with an id?
However I'm designing a system where each association (between ...
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How to store queryable 10-100MB BLOBs?
I have read several discussions about storing BLOBs in the database vs in an object storage. What I need in addition though is a functionality for querying these BLOBs. The BLOBs will be immutable ...
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Ho do I implement Database per Service pattern in Kubernetes?
Assuming I wanted to implement the Database per Service pattern or one of its related patterns like Private-Tables-, Schema- or Database-server-per-service (https://microservices.io/patterns/data/...
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Optimised MongoDB design for access control at project/organisation level
I'm looking for the optimised approach of designing MongoDB database collections where there are three stakeholders-
A User (who accesses a portal).
An Organization (which can have multiple Projects)....
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Triggers and network performance
There are many questions and responses on database triggers, however I have not found any that touch on network performance specifically, in the matter of benefits (or otherwise) of triggers.
I have ...
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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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SQL - store "like" counts as separate column or infer from a query?
Say I have a feature in a web app where users can create a post and like it. In the frontend the user should see the number of likes a post has.
I could store the data two ways:
1. Option 1: A small ...
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Modeling properties of related entities
I have the following entity relationship.
A {state: ON | OFF} => B {state: ON | OFF} => C {state: ON | OFF}
So, in this case, B is a child of A, and C is a child of B. Moreover, they all share ...
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How is double-spending technically prevented in traditional banking? [closed]
In contrast to bitcoin:
How is double-spending technically prevented in traditional banking? Do database transactions have to conform to the ACID property in order to prevent double-spending?
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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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Database schema advice : multiple tables with the shared columns in postgresql
Let's pretend I'm making a basic twitter clone. We could imagine our database is set up as the following:
1. Table 1 - contains user info {username, password}
2. Table 2 - contains session info {...
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Representing database tables as objects
I'm building an address book API, where a user can input multiple contact names, phone numbers, and addresses.
My database structure would be as follows:
create table user (
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