Re: Attribute-value approach for table design

"Joan Wild" <jwild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:#Y#apxACHHA.3496@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I've used it Jeff. We needed to capture periodic measurements on
trees. It was unknown what, how many, or how often attributes
would be measured.

Couldn't see modifying the design everytime they measured
something, so I used the EAV model and it worked for our purposes.

I seem to recall reading that David Fenton uses the OTLT approach
all the time.

I do?

I don't even know what the acronyms mean!

If you mean this:

http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/download/Access/LookupAdmin.html

then I guess I *do* use it all the time.

But I'm pretty lost terminology-wise! :)

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