Question

I have to show huge table to the user, and I need to allow user to select which fields he wants to see.

The question is: what is the best way to store those fields in the database? The only idea I’ve got so far is to crate a table like this:

and set those fields to 0 or 1, but it seems a bad idea to me.

What’s the beast approach?

Answer 1

Let the table be :
(user_id, field_name, enabled)

or if display order is needed too
(user_id, field_name, disp_order, enabled)

Pick those records which are enabled against a given user_id (sorted by disp_order if needed).