[Babase] Darting ER diagram(s)

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Sun Jan 24 23:06:31 EST 2010


On 01/24/2010 04:54:14 PM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> Yes, it's a lot of different tables and info.
> 
> I think it makes a lot of sense to cluster them. I am not sure it  
> matters that much how we cluster them; the most logical clusterings  
> would probably be those that optimized the number of columns per ER.

One factor was eyeballing what I've got and estimating what
would fit on a page.

> 
> With respect to the ones you list below, do they correspond to  
> specific tables that Lacey sent you?

Each noun is an existing table in babase_pending.

> Or are you doing some mixing and 
> 
> re-organizing? I think it's find to have physio and teeth together,  
> but testes would probably go best with morphology -- it is the same  
> type of data.

I'll see what fits and we can talk some more when we start to
work toward something final.

> > Does it make sense to have separate diagrams for
> > some or all of the "groupings" that correspond
> > to the current tables in babase_pending?
> >
> > I'm thinking a diagram for each of:
> >
> > The anesthetic stuff.
> >
> > The morphology stuff.
> >
> > The physiology and teeth.
> >
> > Testes and ticks.



Karl <kop at meme.com>
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