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2008 Oct 20
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Design decision: Dynamically adding data question.
...ocument.
Basically what I want to do is dynamically add metadata (or categories)
to a document on an ad hoc basis. Here are the options that I have
thought of:
**Option 1:**
Should I do this by dynamically creating new table columns in the
database?
**Option 2:**
Should I define 5 columns called
attirbute1,attirbute2,attirbute3,attirbute4,attirbute5 and then only use
and show them if the user requires the attributes.
**Option 3:**
Should I create a metadata table that keeps track of the columns and the
data associated with them?
What do you think is the best way to achieve this? Can you think of an...