Re: patterns for database administration

Chris Boget wrote:
>> Has anyone ever heard of using a separate administration database
>>which is used to modify business data, and then periodically that data
>>would be pushed out to the other database running the customer web
>>application? Does this idea make any sense at all?

I have a system I wrote that does this. Occasionally, the source from which
we get the data pushes an update, and (frankly) I didn't trust the source to
be consistent, so I process the update as if it were new, raw data, put all
the results into temp tables, then use a stored procedure to copy all the
date to the live tables within a single transaction.

In my case, the database is relatively small (less than 100,000 rows total,
in 6 tables, I think) so this happens fairly quickly.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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