2009/10/29 Andreas Hartmann <andr...@apache.org> > Hi everyone, > > I want to model the following scenario for an online marketing application: > > Users can create mailings. The list of recipients can be uploaded as > spreadsheets with arbitrary columns (each row is a recipient). I expect the > following maximum quantities the DB will contain: > > I see basically two approaches to store the recipients: > > A) A single table with a fixed number of generic columns. If the > spreadsheet has less columns than the table, the values will be null. > > B) Two tables, one for the recipients and one for the values: >
One more option is to use arrays (and single table).