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SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

Suboptimal Solutions

Explore suboptimal solutions for handling the Entity-Attribute-Value model in SQL databases. Understand how semistructured data like JSON or XML stored in BLOBs offers flexibility but limits SQL querying capabilities. Learn to work with post-processing techniques and application-level handling to manage complex attribute sets when redesign isn't possible.

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There are two more solutions to model the subtypes that we are going to discuss in this lesson. These are:

  • Semistructured data
  • Post-processing

Semistructured data

If we have many subtypes or if we have to support new attributes frequently, we can add a ...