Design Question

We have a third-party application that I want to extend. It used MS SQL as
a backend and I want to add new custom tables to the db. Is it bad practice
to add custom tables to the live db? Or should I create a seperate db to
hold these tables and synch the tables?
ThanksDo not add tables to the 3:rd party database. They won't like it. Also, you
never know what a future
upgrade program might do. Use your own database.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
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> We have a third-party application that I want to extend. It used MS SQL a
s a backend and I want
> to add new custom tables to the db. Is it bad practice to add custom tabl
es to the live db? Or
> should I create a seperate db to hold these tables and synch the tables?
> Thanks
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