On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jason Purdy wrote: > So instead of widening the "people" table to support these fields > (and having to alter the table every time), I'm thinking of > developing a datapoint type of system, where you'd have one table of > datapoints:
This is a bad idea, but it's also a very common one. It basically treats a relational database as a glorified hash, storing sets of completely denormalized key-value pairs in giant tables. Sometimes that's really what you need, but I suspect that your situation isn't that extreme. -sam --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
