Re: [sqlite] How to deal with non 'normilize-able' tables

2009-12-03 Thread Astley Le Jasper
Hi CityDev, Thanks for getting back to me on this and sorry for not getting back before. I thought it had dropped off the bottom of the forum. Yeah ... it's a pain in the backside. I'd prefer to keep everything normalised, but as I said, it isn't going to be possible. Thanks for the suggestions.

Re: [sqlite] How to deal with non 'normilize-able' tables

2009-11-25 Thread CityDev
What you are saying is you are holding information about items which have different characteristics. To represent these as relations you would have a product entity then you would have an attribute entity that would be like (product_id,attribute_id,attribute_name,attribute_value) eg:

[sqlite] How to deal with non 'normilize-able' tables

2009-11-24 Thread Astley Le Jasper
(Sorry to target this at sqlite users, as this is a general db problem, but if anyone could point me in the right direction...) I have a database that is well structured, but various clients have different information they need which means some info won't fit into a standard table. For example,