On 6/9/05, Serge Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Guggisberg wrote: > > >>In DBs you > >>have to set the type of a column and cannot change it for each row. So > >>this is why you need multiple tables and/or columns to store the > >>property values. Another option would be to use only BLOBs to serialize > >>all types of values, but this would unnecessarily waste space and > >>efficiency on the DB back-end. > >> > >> > > > >aha? why would that be the case? did you try that? well, i tried ;) > > > > > No I must say I didn't try. I just assumed so. Is your implementation > available somewhere ? Can you share it ?
unfortunately not at this point for copyright reasons but it's a trivial excercise that you can do easily yourself. cheers stefan > > Regards, > Serge Huber. >
