Database design - alternatives for Entity Attribute Value (EAV)
- by Bob
Hi,
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/695752/product-table-many-kinds-of-product-each-product-has-many-parameters for similar topic.
My question: i want to design a database, that will be used for a production facility of different types of products where each product has its own (number of) parameters.
because i want the serial numbers to be in one tabel for overview purposes i have a problem with these different paraeters .
One solution could be EAV, but it has its downsides, certainly because we have +- 5 products with every product +- 20.000 serial numbers (records). it looks a bit overkill to me...
I just don't know how one could design a database so that you have an attribute in a mastertable that says: 'hey, you could find details of this record in THAT detail-table".
'in a way that you qould easely query the results)
currenty i am using Visual Basic & Acces 2007. but i'm going to Visual Basic & MySQL.
thanks for your help.
Bob