On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> On 29/03/2008, Ben <bench@silentmedia.com> wrote:
>> I'm working on a project which requires me to keep track of objects,
>> each of which can have an arbitrary number of attributes. Although
>> there will be many attributes that an object can have, the data types
>> of those attributes won't be all that varried (int, float, text,
>> boolean, date, etc.).
>
> And a somewhat unorthodox suggestion for the list ... would it
> be worthwhile considering a different storage mechanism all
> together, like maybe an LDAP directory type of thing? The query
> language is admittedly very limited.
Hm.... worthwhile for some, perhaps, but not for this project. This is
only a small part of a much larger whole, most of which fits quite well
into SQL. Thanks though! I think I'm leaning towards the
one-table-with-many-columns approach, as it seems to require the simpliest
set of constraints while still giving me type-safety.