I design a DB which contains districts of cities.
The question: Is it reasonable to store IDs of districts instead of
district names, provided that we have hard-coded map from district IDs
to district names? Conditions: 1. Disk space is not an issue. 2.

My application needs database. We use SQLConnect to connect to
database through DSN. The SQLConnect uses the registry to look the DSN
entries. What i want to do is the, connect to the DB without registry.
We ship the database connection drivers with our product. I even tried

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Where I can find online articles that explain rules to transform entity
relationship diagram to object logic model? (I need it for Oracle)

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You identify the following attributes, in part, for the Employee
entity:
   Employee number (Primary key)
   Full name

I'm looking at a medium/large web application with 72 tables on a
company intranet. Two of the tables are unusual; they appear to have
been created to avoid having too many additional (very small) tables in
the database. The rough structure of these tables is like this: