Is it acceptable to have table names that are identified by index keys
in another table? I am expecting to have a family of tables that
corespond to rows in indexing table and need a way to look them up.
Essentially, I want to build a 3 dimentional array in the database and
don't know the normal way to do this.
Description of my particular problem:
Essentially I have projects, systems and requirements. Each project has
certain requirements for systems. The requirements are specified on a
per project basis. A requirement is composed of a project, a system,
and an array of integers that represent the number of shifts that will
be required in each week of the projects duration.
My problem is that the projects will have different durations and
therefore different number of elements in the array of shifts. In terms
of the database, I will need a different table for each projects
requirements with the number of columns to match the number of weeks the
project is in effect.
For example, if I had a project number 567 which had a duration of 4
weeks (from week 42 to week 45 in year 2000) which required system 33
and 44, the table might look like this:
REQUIREMENTS567
system_code wk200042 wk200043 wk200044 wk200045
