Re: [tlug] database design idea... what do you think?

["Micheal Cooper" <cooper.me@example.com>]

On Jan 12, 2008 12:00 PM,  <tlug-request@example.com> wrote:
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> From: "Paul McMahon" <pm@example.com>
> To: "Tokyo Linux Users Group" <tlug@example.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:53:42 +0900
> Subject: Re: [tlug] database design idea... what do you think?
> This is called Entity-Attribute-Value Design, and it will cause you
> headaches.  Adding a new table when appropriate isn't a significant amount
> of work, so I don't really see what your problem is in the first place...

I don't really have a problem. It is more of an academic line of
inquiry than anything else. Thank you for the term. Although I have
studied database design formally, I never came across this one. Thank
you again.

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Micheal Cooper
Miyazaki, Japan (GMT+9, no DST)