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Storing object attrs as rows instead of columns
Thanks for the reply! To clarify, the tables could contain the following: OBJ ---- ID TYPE 1 USER 2 USER 3 ACCOUNT 4 TRANSACTION ATTR ---- OBJID NAME VALUE 1 NAME John Smith 1 ADDRESS Street 1 1 PHONE 1234-333444 2 NAME Greg Beard 2 ADDRESS... -
Storing object attrs as rows instead of columns
If one stores an object's attributes as rows in a table with two columns (name, value) it makes for an incredibly flexible object/relational mapping implementation where the database can support all kinds of future objects without modification. The basic idea (very simplified) would then be to...
