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How should I best structure my app when I want to sort a "parent" model by a property computed on another "child" model?
Question about OO-programming, functional programming, NoSQL, SQL databases, and software architecture Hi all, I am a intermediate-level self-taught programmer, and have been dying to get an answer ...
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Why are dependencies typically reversed when representing complex objects as relational tables?
I'm going through some sort of phase where I over analyze and second guess every single decision I make when attempting to write software that has preventing me from getting anything done. I recently ...
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Can anyone explain this one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, many-to-many concept with respect to ORMs?
A lot of ORM sites and SQL tutorials mention these relationships as if they are obvious or to be taken for granted, but I don't fully understand why the distinctions need to be made. Consider two ...
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How to model and store an entity which has "one or more" values
I'll use C# to design the model to be persisted Let's suppose I have the following entity: public class Episode { public int Id { get; set; } public string Title { get; set; } public ...
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How do I know my data is relational or object oriented in nature?
Just read these lines- If your data is object in nature, then use object stores ("NoSQL"). They'll be much faster than a relational database. If your data is relational in nature, the ...