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Asked: 2026-05-19T10:22:01+00:00

Firstly I think this question can be related to any language, but I specified

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Firstly I think this question can be related to any language, but I specified what I was using.

Excuse me if I start to bore also, but I am trying to find out the best way to build a dynamic survey management system.
My client basically has said to me that the data has to be stored in MS SQL as his client has only got MS SQL connector for SAS, which is going to do reporting.

My logic so far is this:
1st. Setup the survey itself, i.e. ask for title, quick overview, etc, etc.
2nd. Define your questions.
3rd. Publish survey.

Now what I have done so far is that when they “publish survey”, I have created a dedicated database table for this survey which will house the responses.
From the admin side of this, they will not be able to modify the questions, maybe the question title but that is about it. They cant add/remove questions.

Question is, is creating individual database tables a good thing? My only worry really is that say the admin creates like 30 questions, I will have 30 columns in that dedicated table. To go with that, this way might be easy for the SAS system to pull in data for reporting. The administrator will not see the survey responses in the admin panel btw.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have done something similar for a language grading exam. I opted for a more flexible approach with the following tables

    +------+    +-------------+    +-------------+    +-------------+    +----------+
| Exam |    | Question    |    | Choice      |    | Answer      |    | User     |
+------+    +-------------+    +-------------+    +-------------+    +----------+
| id   |    | id          |    | id          |    | id          |    | id       |
| name |    | questionNb  |    | choice      |    | user_id     |    | name     |
+------+    | question    |    | question_id |    | exam_id     |    | email    |
            | exam_id     |    | isAnswer    |    | question_id |    | password |
            +-------------+    +-------------+    | choice_id   |    +----------+
                                                  | isGood      | 
                                                  +-------------+

    This model allowed me to easilly have a 15 questions exam, a 30 questions exam and a 50 questions exam. To adapt this model for survey, you might just have to remove the isAnswer and isGood part and you should be good and replace users data with anonymous general data like age, income, sex.

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