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RE: Implementing different document types with different attributes

From: Pardee, Roy E <roy.e.pardee_at_lmco.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:39:23 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005C97C0.20030807093923@fatcity.com>


My knee-jerk reaction is to say go with the one-table-per-document-type approach. Are there any specific difficulties you're anticipating if you do that? Are you going to have to work with records from multiple different document types all at once? If so, can you say something about how you will need to do that?

Cheers,

-Roy

Roy Pardee
Programmer/Analyst/DBA
SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT
Extension 8487

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sorry, misunderstood

Invoices:

Customs Document:

Cash batches:

So, you could see, we've more than 50 type of documents and in total those have more than 70 different attributes (some are the same). There is not one attribute that appears on every document type!!! I would create so 50 tables (for each document type 1), but if someone has another suggestion, I would like to do it in an other way.

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Sent: donderdag 7 augustus 2003 16:59
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Just one or two examples, please.

                                                                                                                                       
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attribute is a specific part of an index-file, but those attributes are different for all document types

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Sent: donderdag 7 augustus 2003 16:15
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What do you have as an example of an "attribute"?

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Hello

I've an installation/implementation question! We've to analyse 50 document types, in total those 50 has 70 different attributes.
We don't want to put all those document types into one table, because more than the half (35) of the attributes are not always used for each document type. This will have to much disk space for each record, if most of the fields are just blank.

Has anyone suggestions how to build our table-structure? I've heart something about FlexFields, what are they? Takes every field diskspace, even if it's blank (null)?

Thanks in advance for the response!

Tim

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