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What is the best way to store data if I don’t know in advance how much data I might have?
The application is that I want to keep track of the employment history of a bunch of people, but I don’t know how many places each person has worked. Would it be best to just alot the proper space for an arbitrary maximum of jobs or store it some other way?
I thought about storing the jobs in another table like this; would that be ideal?
Yes,this is “first normal form” in action
You’d have a Person table
and a Job table
Have a look at the free data models here for inspiration