On Jul 23, 2013, at 9:32 PM, Max Vlasov <max.vla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Petite Abeille > <petite.abei...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> On Jul 23, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Max Vlasov <max.vla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Basically it's several tables implementing Object-Propery-Value metaphor >> >> Hurray! The Entity–attribute–value (EAV) anti-pattern! >> >> > pattern, anti-pattern... I think the main principle should be "whatever > works" :) I guess it depends what you mean by "work"… :D > As for my experience, this was started when I wanted to extract the > information from the CIA Factbook data. So… for example… how would one get, say, the top 3 countries by population growth year-on-year in Asia in 2010? Or in the last 5 years? Or, say, population of one country in 2010 vs. 2011? And calculate the difference between the two? Or, given a country, all its bordering countries? Sorted by border length? Or, …, well, …, any query really... _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
