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AskSQLTeam
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 Posted - 2003-03-24 : 07:43:43
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| dege writes "An html form asks the a user to select all that apply with about 10 options, each with its own checkbox. What is a good way to store the data in a SQL 2000 database? I thought about storing it as "A,C,F" where only the options that are select are stored, separated by commas. But I don't think that is really optimal for running reports and making future changes.Is there a better way?Thanks,dege" |
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harshal_in
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Posted - 2003-03-24 : 08:16:16
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dege writes "An html form asks the a user to select all that apply with about 10 options, each with its own checkbox. What is a good way to store the data in a SQL 2000 database? I thought about storing it as "A,C,F" where only the options that are select are stored, separated by commas. But I don't think that is really optimal for running reports and making future changes.Is there a better way?Thanks,dege"
you should have a seperate column for each option I am not sure but i think this would decrease the processing time and resources required during the report generation,still it dependson what kind of application it is.Expect the UnExpected |
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Page47
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2003-03-24 : 09:16:43
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...you should have a seperate column for each option...
If you want to normalize your data you should store it in a table that looks like ...create table useroptions ( [user] <datatype> not null, [option] <datatype> not null, constraint pk_useroptions primary key clustered ([user],[optoin]) ) Moving your CSV column into seperate columns doesn't truely remove the repeating group. At least according to Fabian ... Joe may disagree ...Jay White{0} |
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How do I store the results of selecting multiple checkboxes in SQL?