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Old Feb 3rd, 2008, 4:03 PM   #1
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Help with database design

I'm currently designing a golf scoring system.

now i have to store a fair bit of information i'm just wondering about the general design.

I'll have tournaments, and in tournaments there are some competitions, like nearest the pin, a, b, and c grade winner and runner up.

now is it better to have one big table for tournaments and just store every competition in that or should i use relations and have a few tables all linked together by a unique key like tournament_id?

if it helps i can provide a current tournament sheet so you can see what information needs to be stored..
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Old Feb 3rd, 2008, 6:55 PM   #2
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Re: Help with database design

Follow normal form. If there will be duplicated data, you need to split up the table into many tables.
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