Data base structure of a subscriber list
- by foodil
I am building a application that allow different user to store the subscriber information
To store the subscriber information , the user first create a list
For each list, there is a ListID.
Subscriber may have different attribute : email phone fax ....
For each list, their setting is different , so a require_attribute table is introduced.
It is a bridge between subscriber and List
That store Listid ,subid , attribute, datatype
That means the system have a lot of list, each user have their own list, and the list have different attribute, some list have email , phone , some may have phone, address, name mail.. And the datatype is different, some may use 'name' as integer , some may use 'name'
as varchar
attribute means email phone, it is to define for which list have
which subscriber attribute
datatype means for each attribute, what is its datatype
Table :subscriber :
Field :subid , name,email
Table :Require Attribute:
Field : Listid ,subid , attribute, datatype
The attribute here is {name, email}
So a simple data is
Subscriber: 1 , MYname, Myemail
Require Attribute :
Listid , 1 , 'email', 'intger'
Listid , 1 , 'name', 'varchar'
I found that this kind of storage is too complex too handle with, Since the subscriber is share to every body, so if a person want to change the datatype of name, it will also affect the data of the other user.
Simple error situation:
Subscriber:
list1, Subscriber 1 , name1, email1
list2, Subscriber 2 , name2 , email2
Require Attribute :
List1 , Subscriber 1 , 'email', 'varchar',
List1 , Subscriber 1 , 'name', 'varchar',
Listid , Subscriber 2 , 'email', 'varchar',
Listid , Subscriber 2, 'name', 'integer',
if user B change the data type of name in require attribute from varchar to integer, it cause a problem. becasue list 1 is own by user A , he want the datatype is varchar, but list 2 is won by user B , he want the datatype to be integer
So how can i redesign the structure?
