Re: User Customisable Schema and Oracle Abstract Data Types

From: Paul Brewer <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:24:15 -0000
Message-ID: <3c61ae59_3@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>

Heading towards 5th Normal Form eh?
Elegant, but will it perform in the real world? Good luck... I suspect you may have to compromise..:-(

Paul

"Rob Godfrey" <rdgodfrey_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:d43e8b61.0202060502.1e37cf79_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi
>
> I've searched the internet for info relating to my problem (see below)
> but so far haven't come up with much. The product I'm developing is a
> document management solution, and I need to provide user customisable
> document metadata fields. Users should be able to define both the
> datatype and label for each metadata field.
>
> My initial solution revolved around 2 tables Property and Attribute
<snip> Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 16:24:15 CST