Я экспериментировал с разными ответами, и ответ Метая был для меня наиболее удобным. Мой текущий проект, хотя он использует Doctrine с MySQL, имеет довольно много свободных таблиц.
Ниже приведен мой опыт решения Methai:
создать таблицу сущностей
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS entity;
CREATE TABLE entity (
id INT UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
title VARCHAR(255),
author VARCHAR(255),
createdOn DATETIME NOT NULL
) Engine = InnoDB;
создать таблицу атрибутов
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS attribute;
CREATE TABLE attribute (
id INT UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
type VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
) Engine = InnoDB;
создать таблицу значений атрибутов
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS attributevalue;
CREATE TABLE attributevalue (
id INT UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
value VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
attribute_id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
FOREIGN KEY(attribute_id) REFERENCES attribute(id)
) Engine = InnoDB;
создать таблицу соединений entity_attributevalue
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS entity_attributevalue;
CREATE TABLE entity_attributevalue (
entity_id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
attributevalue_id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
FOREIGN KEY(entity_id) REFERENCES entity(id),
FOREIGN KEY(attributevalue_id) REFERENCES attributevalue(id)
) Engine = InnoDB;
заполнить таблицу сущностей
INSERT INTO entity
(title, author, createdOn)
VALUES
('TestFile', 'Joe', '2011-01-01'),
('LongNovel', 'Mary', '2011-02-01'),
('ShortStory', 'Susan', '2011-03-01'),
('ProfitLoss', 'Bill', '2011-04-01'),
('MonthlyBudget', 'George', '2011-05-01'),
('Paper', 'Jane', '2012-04-01'),
('Essay', 'John', '2012-03-01'),
('Article', 'Dan', '2012-12-01');
заполнить таблицу атрибутов
INSERT INTO attribute
(name, type)
VALUES
('ReadOnly', 'bool'),
('FileFormat', 'text'),
('Private', 'bool'),
('LastModified', 'date');
заполнить таблицу значений атрибутов
INSERT INTO attributevalue
(value, attribute_id)
VALUES
('true', '1'),
('xls', '2'),
('false', '3'),
('2011-10-03', '4'),
('true', '1'),
('json', '2'),
('true', '3'),
('2011-10-04', '4'),
('false', '1'),
('ascii', '2'),
('false', '3'),
('2011-10-01', '4'),
('false', '1'),
('text', '2'),
('true', '3'),
('2011-10-02', '4'),
('false', '1'),
('binary', '2'),
('false', '3'),
('2011-10-20', '4'),
('doc', '2'),
('false', '3'),
('2011-10-20', '4'),
('rtf', '2'),
('2011-10-20', '4');
заполнить таблицу entity_attributevalue
INSERT INTO entity_attributevalue
(entity_id, attributevalue_id)
VALUES
('1', '1'),
('1', '2'),
('1', '3'),
('1', '4'),
('2', '5'),
('2', '6'),
('2', '7'),
('2', '8'),
('3', '9'),
('3', '10'),
('3', '11'),
('3', '12'),
('4', '13'),
('4', '14'),
('4', '15'),
('4', '16'),
('5', '17'),
('5', '18'),
('5', '19'),
('5', '20'),
('6', '21'),
('6', '22'),
('6', '23'),
('7', '24'),
('7', '25');
Отображение всех записей
SELECT *
FROM `entity` e
LEFT JOIN `entity_attributevalue` ea ON ea.entity_id = e.id
LEFT JOIN `attributevalue` av ON ea.attributevalue_id = av.id
LEFT JOIN `attribute` a ON av.attribute_id = a.id;
id title author createdOn entity_id attributevalue_id id value attribute_id id name type
1 TestFile Joe 2011-01-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 true 1 1 ReadOnly bool
1 TestFile Joe 2011-01-01 00:00:00 1 2 2 xls 2 2 FileFormat text
1 TestFile Joe 2011-01-01 00:00:00 1 3 3 false 3 3 Private bool
1 TestFile Joe 2011-01-01 00:00:00 1 4 4 2011-10-03 4 4 LastModified date
2 LongNovel Mary 2011-02-01 00:00:00 2 5 5 true 1 1 ReadOnly bool
2 LongNovel Mary 2011-02-01 00:00:00 2 6 6 json 2 2 FileFormat text
2 LongNovel Mary 2011-02-01 00:00:00 2 7 7 true 3 3 Private bool
2 LongNovel Mary 2011-02-01 00:00:00 2 8 8 2011-10-04 4 4 LastModified date
3 ShortStory Susan 2011-03-01 00:00:00 3 9 9 false 1 1 ReadOnly bool
3 ShortStory Susan 2011-03-01 00:00:00 3 10 10 ascii 2 2 FileFormat text
3 ShortStory Susan 2011-03-01 00:00:00 3 11 11 false 3 3 Private bool
3 ShortStory Susan 2011-03-01 00:00:00 3 12 12 2011-10-01 4 4 LastModified date
4 ProfitLoss Bill 2011-04-01 00:00:00 4 13 13 false 1 1 ReadOnly bool
4 ProfitLoss Bill 2011-04-01 00:00:00 4 14 14 text 2 2 FileFormat text
4 ProfitLoss Bill 2011-04-01 00:00:00 4 15 15 true 3 3 Private bool
4 ProfitLoss Bill 2011-04-01 00:00:00 4 16 16 2011-10-02 4 4 LastModified date
5 MonthlyBudget George 2011-05-01 00:00:00 5 17 17 false 1 1 ReadOnly bool
5 MonthlyBudget George 2011-05-01 00:00:00 5 18 18 binary 2 2 FileFormat text
5 MonthlyBudget George 2011-05-01 00:00:00 5 19 19 false 3 3 Private bool
5 MonthlyBudget George 2011-05-01 00:00:00 5 20 20 2011-10-20 4 4 LastModified date
6 Paper Jane 2012-04-01 00:00:00 6 21 21 binary 2 2 FileFormat text
6 Paper Jane 2012-04-01 00:00:00 6 22 22 false 3 3 Private bool
6 Paper Jane 2012-04-01 00:00:00 6 23 23 2011-10-20 4 4 LastModified date
7 Essay John 2012-03-01 00:00:00 7 24 24 binary 2 2 FileFormat text
7 Essay John 2012-03-01 00:00:00 7 25 25 2011-10-20 4 4 LastModified date
8 Article Dan 2012-12-01 00:00:00 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL
сводная таблица
SELECT e.*,
MAX( IF(a.name = 'ReadOnly', av.value, NULL) ) as 'ReadOnly',
MAX( IF(a.name = 'FileFormat', av.value, NULL) ) as 'FileFormat',
MAX( IF(a.name = 'Private', av.value, NULL) ) as 'Private',
MAX( IF(a.name = 'LastModified', av.value, NULL) ) as 'LastModified'
FROM `entity` e
LEFT JOIN `entity_attributevalue` ea ON ea.entity_id = e.id
LEFT JOIN `attributevalue` av ON ea.attributevalue_id = av.id
LEFT JOIN `attribute` a ON av.attribute_id = a.id
GROUP BY e.id;
id title author createdOn ReadOnly FileFormat Private LastModified
1 TestFile Joe 2011-01-01 00:00:00 true xls false 2011-10-03
2 LongNovel Mary 2011-02-01 00:00:00 true json true 2011-10-04
3 ShortStory Susan 2011-03-01 00:00:00 false ascii false 2011-10-01
4 ProfitLoss Bill 2011-04-01 00:00:00 false text true 2011-10-02
5 MonthlyBudget George 2011-05-01 00:00:00 false binary false 2011-10-20
6 Paper Jane 2012-04-01 00:00:00 NULL binary false 2011-10-20
7 Essay John 2012-03-01 00:00:00 NULL binary NULL 2011-10-20
8 Article Dan 2012-12-01 00:00:00 NULL NULL NULL NULL