{"id":431,"date":"2011-10-31T17:57:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T17:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2011-10-31T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T17:57:38","slug":"how-do-you-change-a-database-design-to-top-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"how do you change a database design to Top-Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by Chardy<\/i>: how do you change a database design to Top-Down?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry for asking such a stupid question, but I&#8217;ve never done this before.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m talking about EDITING a database, not making a new one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by iris wide open<\/i><br \/>In general, you can&#8217;t.  A database &#8220;design&#8221; is its schema, and if the schema is wrong, you need to start over with a better schema.  But once that is done, you can usually convert the old data over to the new schema.<\/p>\n<p>More details about your project might help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give your answer to this question below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by Chardy: how do you change a database design to Top-Down? I&#8217;m sorry for asking such a stupid question, but I&#8217;ve never done this before. I&#8217;m talking about EDITING a database, not making a new one. Best answer: Answer by iris wide openIn general, you can&#8217;t. A database &#8220;design&#8221; is its schema, and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[594,281,11,1252],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-design","tag-change","tag-database","tag-design","tag-topdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}