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Storing such variable meta-data seems like a job for XML. Unfortunately there is not yet a fast XML-based database available.

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Re: Re: Re: Efficiency MySQL question
by hardburn (Abbot) on Nov 18, 2003 at 21:45 UTC

    In that case, just make a BLOB field (or whatever the equivilent is for your database) and put XML into it. Though that will make it slow to do searches based on that data.

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