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    What is your criteria for deciding what is "best?" Also, are you sure you're not creating an Inner Platform? Commented Feb 21, 2017 at 17:41
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    What you're describing is basically a "sparse matrix," i.e. a spreadsheet. It would help if we knew a little more about your use case, i.e. what is the actual problem you're trying to solve. Commented Feb 21, 2017 at 17:53
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    What will be in these tables? Is it necessary to store them in a format that can be queried via SQL? Or could just just serialize them into a blob and store that? Commented Feb 21, 2017 at 17:59
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    Voting to close ... The actual problem isn't clear here. And as @RobertHarvey points out, there's no criteria here for what's "cleaner" or "better" ... Or what the real, underlying problem is. Commented Mar 24, 2017 at 2:31
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    @svidgen: According to this author's profile, he hasn't visited the site again since he posted the question on Feb 21. Commented Mar 24, 2017 at 4:49