Re: Data Modeling Question

  • From: Carel-Jan Engel <careljan@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ahbaid@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:05:29 +0100

Ahbaid,

If you haven't done so, go through the mandatory introduction to 'How to
get dreadful database performance' by Stephane Faroult. You can find it
here

I'm serious. It is really, really worth your time. If you can't spare 20
minutes, then go through the first 5 minutes at least. 

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:51 -0800, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:

> We have a data model which looks like the following:
> 
> ITEMS
> ==========
> ITEM_CODE              VARCHAR2(100)     (Primary Key col 1)
> ITEM_TYPE               VARCHAR2(100)
> ATTRIBUTE_001       VARCHAR2(4000)
> ATTRIBUTE_002       VARCHAR2(4000)
> ...
> ATTRIBUTE_250       VARCHAR2(4000)
> 
> 
> ITEM_TYPE_LU
> ============
> ITEM_TYPE               VARCHAR2(100)  (Primary Key col 1)
> ATTRIBUTE_NAME  VARCHAR2(1000) (Primary Key col 2) 
> ATTRIBUTE_COLNUM NUMBER
> 
> I am proceeding with approach 1 for now.
> 
> many thanks for your input
> 
> Ahbaid
> 
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