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Design Issue: Demographics and Repeating Values


Popgun

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Hello All,

 

Long time lurker, first time poster here.

 

I am currently designing a schema for a project that includes user profiles. So obviously there is a section of the profile that allows for input of demographic information. Ive gotten most every thing normalized but ran into an interesting issue I was hoping someone could help with:

 

Issues:

What to do with a gender field?

Option A: Make a separate table/field with values: male, female, no answer

 

Height: again male a separate table/field? else there are repeated values much like gender above

 

Weight: I am making a unique table with a "ranges" field? This sound reasonable?

 

Income: Same as above but with "income range"

 

I know that getting to granular on the design leads to performance issues but these particular demographics will be called every time someone loads a profile page so I'd rather design for performance.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Popgun

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