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Mistakes and Questionable Practices  Re: Named Mistakes and
Questionable Practices  From: David Cressey <> Date: Thu, 08 Jun
2006 11:59:06 GMT Message-ID: <eiUhg.3727$F%3.3566@trndny07>
"David Fetter" <> wrote in message > Folks, > Has anybody here
made a list of canonical mistakes[1] that DB > practitioners
make? > One example mistake is the One True Lookup Table aka the
> Entity-Attribute-Value table, as in this article: > <>.
Doubtless > people have run across others. Ideally, such
references would: > * Name the mistake, > * Describe the
mistake's implementation, and > * Show how and under what
circumstances it's a mistake, as the above > article does. >
Thanks in advance for any hints, tips, or pointers :) > Cheers,
> D > [1] Let's exclude, for the purposes of this discussion,
the idea that > SQL itself is a giant mistake and that we should
now be using > VaporWareTransRelationalDBMST--v