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ruok0101 | 7 years ago

I worked with one guy once where he wanted the "ultimate flexibility" and every data model object basically became a database table with the columns 'key' and 'value'. Trying to think of everything ahead of time has its own problems...

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walshemj|7 years ago

Which is how map/reduce systems work at the core - and how we implemented it back in the 1980's.

Each record type and field in that record had its own entry in a MIDAS table so you could process say TELEX records differently to Email, Data etc.