[Catalyst] Possibly OT: DB schemas for tags

[samwyse]

On 8/29/05, Johan Lindstrom <johanl at darserman.com> wrote:
> At 14:03 2005-08-29, samwyse wrote:
> >http://tagschema.com/blogs/tagschema/
> >
> >This is interesting on several levels.  First, there's a pretty
> >detailed analysis of how to "properly" integrate tags into a db
> >schema.  The guy is supposed to be a data warehousing guru, so one
> >expects that he understands how to scale things upwards.
> 
> Uh, what's the big deal about _not_ storing a comma-separated list of words
> as a blob? Isn't that obviously a bad idea?

As many times as I've seen cautions against doing it, I have to
conclude that it apparently isn't obvious.