Re: Multiple tables refer to one -To use foreign keys or not?

Adriano Varoli Piazza <moranar_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>On 29 mayo, 18:38, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> I will cite Date's _Principle of Incoherence_ and ask whether you are
>> re-inventing EAV, yet again?
>
>Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-Attribute-Value_model ,
>but this doesn't look like the same problem at first glance. I'll try
>to wrap my head around the concept.
>Though it does seem to be an awful lot of work for this particular
>task.
>
>Thanks for the readup anyway, if it's the right solution, good, and if
>it's not, I'll avoid reinventing stuff in the future.

     It is not the right solution. It is a hideous way to do it.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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     You have biases.
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