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Asked: 2026-06-07T00:08:05+00:00

I have a table where I am storing configurations for a tool I have.

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I have a table where I am storing configurations for a tool I have. It has a ConfigID which is just an identity field, customer name, application name, then it has 18 well known fields (wellknownfield1,wellknownfield2,…,wellknownfield18) that I know what to put in based off another table values.

Now my problem comes in. I also need custom values. Currently I have a dumb solution of having customfieldname1, customfieldvalue1,…,customfieldname20, customfieldvalue20). Where the values have all the random values I need delimited by pipes. I am using a SQL Server Database. Anyone have any suggestions? Please comment if anything is unclear.

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    Strictly speaking, you should not put groups of values in a column. It violates the first normal form of relational data. Create a separate table called Custom Data (Config_ID, CUSTOM_NAME, CUSTOM_DATA_VALUE, CUSTOM_DATA_TYPE) and store the custom values in it.

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