Sunday, April 25, 2004 - Posts
As I mentionned it in many of my previous posts, I'm currently working on a personal project. Since it's going to manage a lot of informations, tables of my database have a pretty big number of columns (like 30 columns)... I know what you're going to tell me : Normalize your database ! Of course I did and it's normalized, but these 30 fields really are native properties and core data of my entities.
Since the application will have a lot of users and a real need of scalability, I was wondering if 30 columns in a table is a problem or not... Does it have any consequences at the performance level ? If so, I guess I would have to normalize a bit more, but another problem appears here : over-normalization which is also a performance degradation cause... Do you guys have any advices about that ?
When I plugged my second screen on my new computer, I wondered why the Windows task bar didn't expand on both screen.. So I searched around on the internet and I found
UltraMon. It's an excellent utility that lets you leverage the power of a dual screen
with many different features ! A must have if you are a dual screen owner.
Woohoo ! I recently received my new PC. It's a Dell Dimension 8300, with a P4 3.4Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 2 * 74 Gb (10000 tpm), ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128Mb RAM), Dual Flat Screen 17", etc... Here are some pictures :
(That's me on my snowboard in the French Alps, at "Les 2 Alpes" station.)
Do you guys have any good wallpapers for dual screen ? I know there are some excellent ones on Digital Blasphemy, but I'm not in the mood to buy them...