Question

I’m trying to design some tables to store some data, which has to be converted to different languages later. Can anybody provide some ‘best practices’ or guidelines for this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Let’s say you have a products table that looks like this:

Products ---------- id price  Products_Translations ---------------------- product_id locale name description 

Then you just join on product_id = product.id and where locale=’en-US’

of course this has an impact on performance, since you now need a join to get the name and description, but it allows any number of locales later on.