On 11/15/05, panos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I have thought about that but there are some issues. > First of all the table "logdetails" will become huge. Imagine logging > values of 5000 variables > every 15minutes! > Secondly not all variables are of the same time. They can be boolean, > int and real. > If you have just one table for all of them then logentry has to be the > "biggest" type namely > real to accomodate all of them But isn't that a great waste of space > storing a boolean > with 4 or 8 bytes?
It sounds to me like you're complaining that a relational database isn't the right tool for your job.