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Re: What is the point of the categoryoptioncomboname table??

 

2010/11/15 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> Its not categoryoptioncombo but _categoryoptioncombo.  Its a resource table and not part of the model

You mean that it is "_categoryoptioncomboname" and not
"categoryoptioncomboname", and that this is a resource table, right?
In other words, a table that gets generated?

> Adding extra columns to domain model tables is bad practice.

Ok, but can you tell me where else the names are stored? In other
words, how to populate the database directly with hundreds of
optionscombos?

Knut

> Lars
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> It seems to me this table only serves to hide the name from the
>> categoryoptioncombo table. Isn't this just adding to the complexity
>> (and confusion) of the multidiemensional makeup?
>>
>> Could we not just add the name to categoryoptioncombo?
>>
>> Knut
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Knut Staring



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