[thesite] Community News Category

[.jeff]

dan,

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> From: Daniel J. Cody
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> you get bitchy cus i changed something as simple as the
> number of the categoryid? helllooooo... pot? kettle?
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no, this is not me being hypocritical.  there's no sound reason for changing
that id other than you "felt dirty" because it matched a pk id used in
another table.  that's complete crap.  the reasons i cited in the passage
you quoted are relevant to bug fixes and performance issues and not at all
with how "clean" or "dirty" they make me feel.

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> and what do you mean 'right next to eachother'? they're
> arranged in alphabetical order anyways.
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read the sentence again:

  "besides, don't you think it was nice to have the
   categoryid for news and community news right next
   to each other"

the keyword being "categoryid" not the name of the category.

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> we've never used a PK from one table to the next since
> the sequence went in place.
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and?  i didn't agree with that implementation when it happened either.
your reasoning has no logic as there are already lots of multiple uses of
the same pk throughout the site from when we were using access and creating
pk's on a per table basis.

.jeff

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