Re: Multiple tables refer to one -To use foreign keys or not?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:11:09 -0300
Message-ID: <483f5431$0$4044$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Adriano Varoli Piazza <moranar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>On 29 mayo, 18:38, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>>>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.
And I want to make clear I wasn't accusing the OP of anything hideous. I could not make enough sense of his post to tell what he was doing, and some of it seemed suggestive of yet another reinvention of EAV. Not enough to say for sure, though. Received on Fri May 30 2008 - 03:11:09 CEST