OCS Database structure

Question

Can I find OCS database structure anywhere ?
I'm making definitions for a customer to migrate their current email system to OCS. Current system is nor Outlook neither Lotus but Teamware (Fujitsu) and I think I have to do data conversion programs from the scratch.
... or is there any other solutions ?
- Antti

Answer 1

There is no 'best' way of creating a database. It's more logic that is involved in examining the parameters that determine what DB will suit your current requirement. These parameters may include but aren't limited to:
Latency
Performance
Sortability
Accessibility
Ease-of-use
Scalability
If I were you, for the said purpose, I'd create with 4 tables as follows:
Categories - this will hold your main categoriesCatID, Name, Order ID
Sub-CategotiesSubCatID, CatID (that the SubCat is linked to), Name, Order ID
Sub-Sub CategoriesSubSubCatID, SubCatID, CatID, Name, Order Id
ArticlesArticleID, SubSubCatID (can hold multiple Sub-Sub-categories) SubCatID (can hold multiple Sub-categories), CatID (can hold multiple Categotries), Name, Order ID, Article Title, Article Description, Article Thumbnail, URL Name, Metatags (for SEO, if you're looking at doing SEO)
The CatID in Article Table will usually be an INT value with limited chars, the SubCatID and SubSubCatID in Article Table will ideally be a varchar value with about 200 chars so you could assign multiple SubCatIDs to one article.
I'd like to add here that this is very much a debatable post. What suits me may not suit you and/ or the others who may read this post! But this way, I can accomplish my programming/ coding task/ CMS integration with ease-of-use.
Good luck with your DB!
~ST