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What's The Most Efficient Way?


I've done a database scheme and wonder what the most efficient way of storing certain entries would be. The site will have news, reviews and tutorials and these will be under the same categories. So I'm wondering what the best way to do design the database scheme would be.

Have one table like I've done now in the "content" table with the posibilty to differentiate the entries with the "post_type" field or have three different tables? Below is the table "content".

Field Type Null Default
post_id int(10) No
post_date datetime No 0000-00-00 00:00:00
post_text text No
post_title text No
post_cat_id int(4) No 0
post_description text No
post_name varchar(200) No
post_type int(4) No 0




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AND
sum(case when pc.colorid=&#392;' then 1 else 0 end)>=1
AND
sum(case when pm.materialid=&#392;' then 1 else 0 end)>=1
Remarks:
*this option requires the pseudo query to be turned into a product of sums form; again is their a clever way to obtain such a form;




Option 4
SELECT DISTINCT pc1.persid FROM perscolor pc1
INNER JOIN perscolor pc2
ON pc1.persid=pc2.persid AND pc2.colorid=2
INNER JOIN persmaterial pm1
ON pc1.persid=pm1.persid AND pm1.materialid=2
LEFT OUTER JOIN perscolor pc3
ON pc1.persid=pc3.persid AND pc3.colorid=1
LEFT OUTER JOIN perscolor pc4
ON pc1.persid=pc4.persid AND pc4.colorid=3
WHERE COALESCE(pc3.persid,pc4.persid) IS NOT NULL
Remarks:
*this option requires the pseudo query to be turned into a product of sums form

Option 5:
SELECT p.persid FROM person p, persmaterial pm,perscolor pc1,perscolor pc2,perscolor pc3 WHERE p.persid=pm.persid AND p.persid=pc1.persid AND p.persid=pc2.persid AND p.persid=pc3.persid AND (pc1.colorid=1 OR pc2.colorid=3) AND pc3.colorid=2 AND pm.materialid=2 GROUP BY p.persid
Remarks:
*very easy to get from pseudo query to MySQL query but what about performance?



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--
-- Table structure for table `color`
--

CREATE TABLE `color` (
`colorid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`color` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`colorid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=5 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `color`
--

INSERT INTO `color` VALUES (1, 'red');
INSERT INTO `color` VALUES (2, 'green');
INSERT INTO `color` VALUES (3, 'blue');
INSERT INTO `color` VALUES (4, 'yellow');

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `material`
--

CREATE TABLE `material` (
`materialid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`material` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`materialid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `material`
--

INSERT INTO `material` VALUES (1, 'wood');
INSERT INTO `material` VALUES (2, 'iron');

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `perscolor`
--

CREATE TABLE `perscolor` (
`perscolorid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`persid` int(11) NOT NULL default &#390;',
`colorid` int(11) NOT NULL default &#390;',
PRIMARY KEY (`perscolorid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=7 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `perscolor`
--

INSERT INTO `perscolor` VALUES (1, 1, 1);
INSERT INTO `perscolor` VALUES (2, 1, 2);
INSERT INTO `perscolor` VALUES (3, 2, 1);
INSERT INTO `perscolor` VALUES (5, 3, 3);
INSERT INTO `perscolor` VALUES (6, 3, 2);

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `persmaterial`
--

CREATE TABLE `persmaterial` (
`persmatid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`persid` int(11) NOT NULL default &#390;',
`materialid` int(11) NOT NULL default &#390;',
PRIMARY KEY (`persmatid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=6 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `persmaterial`
--

INSERT INTO `persmaterial` VALUES (1, 1, 1);
INSERT INTO `persmaterial` VALUES (2, 1, 2);
INSERT INTO `persmaterial` VALUES (3, 2, 1);
INSERT INTO `persmaterial` VALUES (5, 3, 2);

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `person`
--

CREATE TABLE `person` (
`persid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`persid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `person`
--

INSERT INTO `person` VALUES (1, 'john');
INSERT INTO `person` VALUES (2, 'emily');
INSERT INTO `person` VALUES (3, 'liz');

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select d.id, a.signed, u.Forename, u.Surname, d.paid, p.date, d.payment, p.amount, d.acctual
from details d
join poten a
on a.id = d.id
left join recieved p
on d.id = p.id
left join users u
on a.signed = u.userid
where d.paid > '01-Dec-2005'
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and d.authorrefused is null
and ((d.payment starting 'E' or
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