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Old 07-21-04, 20:17
gekkokid gekkokid is offline
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Exclamation forum database design

hi people this is my first post - hallo


what structure should i use for the tables if i wanted to make a forum?

i was thinking of having a single posts table with the thread (starters) link field being to -1 to show its a start of a thread

any ideas

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Old 07-24-04, 17:53
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Here is a Data Model on the Database Answers site that you might find interesting :-
http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_...conceptual.htm

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