Answer by Mark Storey-Smith for How to design future proof tables?
You can't design a schema to cope with every possible eventuality, so don't try. Couple of options:Design for what you know now. Revisit and modify when new requirements emerge.Use an EAV model to...
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Where info is personalised it should be normalised into linked tables that only join to rows where that optional column has been added. Also if you might be adding many columns or long data it is...
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I am new to database design and have started developing my first schema.Some of my tables (e.g. user_profile) I am struggling to come up with an exhaustive list of fields for the table. A particular...
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