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Asked: 2026-06-04T08:27:32+00:00

I’m making a database and have a table structured as follows Att1 Att2 Att3

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I’m making a database and have a table structured as follows

         Att1    Att2    Att3   ....
User1    
User2
User3
....

where I would like each of the attributes (Att1, Att2, Att3,…) to have a boolean variable attached to it. Something like the following:

Att1    No
Att2    No
Att3    Yes
...     ...

Each attribute is a numerical score from the user (listing preference), but I want to tag each attribute with whether it’s actually important or not. Is there a standard approach for handling this type of dependency? Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Oh, it would be nice if we could have records embedded in tables. However, standard SQL and most databases do not support this (although there are exceptions).

    I would use a consistent naming convention, inventing fields like “IsImportantAtt1” and “IsImportantAtt2”. When I do this, I also have the convention that all the “Is” variables take on only the values of “Y” or “N”. If I want to see “Yes” and “No” in the output, then I use views for that conversion or do it in the application layer.

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