On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Mike Keen wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I am managing a database that has hundreds of thousands of documents (so 
> far), all containing a field called "keyword_id". I am not storing the 
> "keyword_name" inside of each individual document for several reasons. The 
> biggest reason being that the name could change at any time, but I don't want 
> old documents to become outdated. I still want them to be associated with one 
> another.
> 

I'd suggest, if possible (and I know you already have a bunch of data, so maybe 
not for you, but for people coming along on new projects) to store your 
keywords on your docs and drop the "feature" that keywords can be renamed at 
any time.

Chris

> Thanks a million,
> Mike Keen

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