Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 21st November 2007 21:12

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 19:22:15 Graham Stark wrote:

> The idea is, sort out what really makes a record unique (a username,
> perhaps, or a username and an order number) and use that. Let the
> database do the work for you.

Sure. My point (again) is that adding a unique auto-increment ID and
a timestamp can be an enormously useful source of information when
debugging. You may not ever look at these again except through an
admin tool.

> Normalisation procedures can look scary, but they're really not.

That's my point. As far as I can see it's all dressed-up in fancy
computer science bollockese from the University of the Bleedin'
Obvious.