On 10 Jul 2015, at 5:58pm, James K. Lowden <jklowden at schemamania.org> wrote:

> Simon Slavin <slavins at bigfraud.org> wrote:
> 
>> If you're going to do it properly you have a keywords column which
>> contains strings like
>> 
>> ,
>> ,animal,
>> ,animal,predator,
>> ,animal,predator,bird,
> 
> Why do it that way?  I would recommend a schema like Keith's, with one
> keyword per row in a separate table. 

I was trying not to change the ideas of the OP too much by introducing another 
table.  Keith's suggestion of normalization is, of course, a superior solution 
if the schema can be changed that much.

Simon.

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