Stringly typed values table in sql, is there a better way to do this? (we're using MSSQL)

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Published on 2010-12-29T20:19:35Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 20:54 UTC
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We have have a table layout with property names in one table, and values in a second table, and items in a third. (Yes, we're re-implementing tables in SQL.)

We join all three to get a value of a property for a specific item.

Unfortunately the values can have multiple data types double, varchar, bit, etc. Currently the consensus is to stringly type all the values and store the type name in the column next to the value.

tblValues DataTypeName nvarchar

Is there a better, cleaner way to do this?

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