Re: [cgiapp] Before I go off into a codestorm... [Mini-CRM Question]

[Sam Tregar <suppressed>]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jason Purdy wrote:

> So instead of widening the "people" table to support these fields
> (and having to alter the table every time), I'm thinking of
> developing a datapoint type of system, where you'd have one table of
> datapoints:

This is a bad idea, but it's also a very common one.  It basically
treats a relational database as a glorified hash, storing sets of
completely denormalized key-value pairs in giant tables.  Sometimes
that's really what you need, but I suspect that your situation isn't
that extreme.

-sam

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