Re: Data Types

Why don't you use a separate table "species" with an associative table in between "species" and "Paleosites" ?

Is there any reason preventing it I am missing?

Best,
Oliveiros

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Subject: [NOVICE] Data Types

Hello List,

I have a column of a table of paleontological sites named "Paleosites" wich has a column named "species". A paleosite can contain remais of one or more animals. So in that column sometimes I have to put this: dinossauria crocodilia plantae. This indicates that from a given paleosite were retrieved the remais of 3 different species.

Now my question is: wich data type should the column "Species" be? Text? Varchar?

Thank you in advance,

Best Regards,

André Mano

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