Re: Database schema for univesal usage

The solution to solving/maintaining/evolving the schema problem is, to not have a "schema" in the first place as in xrdb. Instead, let the current "schema" be defined by the current data in the db. If a db has ten persons and each person has wildly different attributes, what is the schema? And what will be the schema if each next person is again different than any of the prior? Having and/or expected things to be the same is a special case, it is not the general case. Received on Tue May 31 2005 - 05:02:32 CEST