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Tim,
How about this?
Table Doc_Types
Doc_Type_ID Number PK
,Doc_Type_Descr VarChar2(100)
Table Doc_Attributes
Doc_Attrib_ID Number PK
,Doc_Attrib_Descr VarChar2(100)
Table Doc_Type_Attributes ("Intersect" table of the above two)
Doc_Type_ID Number PK and FK to Doc_Types
,Doc_Attrib_ID Numter PK and FK to Doc_Attributes
Table Documents
Doc_ID Number PK
,Doc_Type_ID Number part of FK to
Doc_Type_Attributes
,Doc_Attrib_ID Number part of FK to
Doc_Type_Attributes
,Doc_Descr VarChar2(100)
,Doc_Body BLOB (store this segment out-of-line
somewhere)
This way you can have as many Doc Types and Attributes as you want and never have to modify table designs if you add or remove some. Also, no blank columns.
Jack C. Applewhite
Database Administrator
Austin Independent School District
Austin, Texas
512.414.9715 (wk)
512.935.5929 (pager)
JApplewhite_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu
"Vernaillen Tim"
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Hello
I've an installation/implementation question!
We've to analyse 50 document types, in total those 50 has 70 different
attributes.
We don't want to put all those document types into one table, because more
than the half (35) of the attributes are not always used for each document
type. This will have to much disk space for each record, if most of the
fields are just blank.
Has anyone suggestions how to build our table-structure? I've heart something about FlexFields, what are they? Takes every field diskspace, even if it's blank (null)?
Thanks in advance for the response!
Tim
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