SQL efficiency argument, add a column or solvable by query?
- by theTurk
I am a recent college graduate and a new hire for software development. Things have been a little slow lately so I was given a db task. My db skills are limited to pet projects with Rails and Django. So, I was a little surprised with my latest task.
I have been asked by my manager to subclass Person with a 'Parent' table and add a reference to…