On 5/15/07, Mark Armendariz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

CREATE TABLE data_fields (
        field_id MEDIUMINT(6) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
        data_id TINYINT(3) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
        field_name VARCHAR(20),
        field_data VARCHAR(100)
)

Did you ever worry about record integrity problems?

What if a data record is missing some field values? Or has more than
one value stored for some field name?

I was glad to see Brian asking about this topic, because it's been
sitting in the back of my head for a while now.

--
Chris Snyder
http://chxo.com/
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