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* Celko take on EAV
@ 2010-05-07 16:33 Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com>
2010-05-07 18:43 ` Re: Celko take on EAV Justin Graf <justin@magwerks.com>
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From: Richard Broersma @ 2010-05-07 16:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
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<This question isn't a flame bait for the merits of the EAV.>
I'm rereading my Joe Celko's SQL Programming Style and I noticed an
interesting comment regarding the EAV model (of course he discourages
its use):
"There are better tools for collecting free-from data."
What tools was he referring to?
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* Re: Celko take on EAV
2010-05-07 16:33 Celko take on EAV Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com>
@ 2010-05-07 18:43 ` Justin Graf <justin@magwerks.com>
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From: Justin Graf @ 2010-05-07 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
On 5/7/2010 12:33 PM, Richard Broersma wrote:
> <This question isn't a flame bait for the merits of the EAV.>
>
> I'm rereading my Joe Celko's SQL Programming Style and I noticed an
> interesting comment regarding the EAV model (of course he discourages
> its use):
>
> "There are better tools for collecting free-from data."
>
> What tools was he referring to?
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-attribute-value_model
has notes on other models.
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