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Re: Database design for scientific tests
Posted by: Al Lombardo
Date: June 25, 2009 12:34PM

The reason why I broke out the test_data_type into another table was because it seemed that each test was going to track different data. Really, the proper was to handle this is to have it all in one record, so instead of having a fk to a lookup table, just have a column for each possible type, pressure, temp etc. If you aren't interested in keeping data for temp then just leave it null.

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