Why don't you use a separate table "species" with an associative table in between "species" and "Paleosites" ?
Is there any reason preventing it I am missing?
Best,
Oliveiros
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Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:17 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Data Types
Hello List,
I have a column of a table of paleontological sites named "Paleosites" wich has a column named "species". A paleosite can contain remais of one or more animals. So in that column sometimes I have to put this: dinossauria crocodilia plantae. This indicates that from a given paleosite were retrieved the remais of 3 different species.
Now my question is: wich data type should the column "Species" be? Text? Varchar?
Thank you in advance,
Best Regards,
André Mano
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