{"id":443,"date":"2002-05-15T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2002-05-16T00:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/05\/15\/443.html"},"modified":"2002-05-15T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2002-05-16T00:58:06","slug":"databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/05\/15\/databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've come to find databases indispensable for all kinds of things.  Unfortunately, over the past couple days I've encountered one of the big problems with using them: if you don't design them well from the start, then when you try to transfer existing data into a better-designed database, it takes a lot of work.<\/p>\n<p>So let this be a lesson to you (or at least to me): learn about the principles of good database design before you create a database.  Yes, that means it'll take longer to get it in place, but you'll be a lot happier further down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I still only know the basics of good database design.  It's possible that in another couple years, I'll have to go through a similarly rough switchover to a better design.  But I think it'll be a lot easier next time; the new design may not be perfect, but at least it doesn't throw everything together in one huge table.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come to find databases indispensable for all kinds of things. Unfortunately, over the past couple days I&#8217;ve encountered one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}