Hello, I'm after some advice on database design:
I've got an object - for an example a hotel - and I want to keep information about this hotel, criteria that it either has or hasn't (TV, swimming pool etc). I want to search on criteria and return the most appropriate match. Bearing in mind I've currently got over 200 criteria and want to expand this, how should approach the design of my criteria table. Should I have a table with Hotel Id and then a char(1) (Y/N) field for each criteria and then a seperate look-up table for criteria name. I get the feeling there is a more efficient method using binary operations (only one field populated with zeros and ones) but I can't find anything to help in the manuals. Any thoughts? Lee Denny -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
