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QuestionHow to design sql db for storing Name/Value objects with unknown value type (EF Core 5 as ORM)? Pin
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Hello,

How do you approach typical scenario of custom values (key/value pairs) for an entity? The example would be something like this:

class Person
{
   string Name{get;set;}
   IEnumerable<CustomProperty> CustomProperties {get;set;}
}

class CustomProperty
{
   string Name{get;set;}
   string Value{get;set;}
}


The problem is that Value needs to be of different types so e.g custom property called Color would have a string value of e.g. "Red" while Age would have to be treated as a number (even though it's stored as nvarchar). How would you approach this with a requirement to be able to filter and order over custom properties (multiple at once also with OR/AND) when querying Persons so I'd like to e.g. query over Persons of Age greater than 10 while Value is stored as nvarchar so casting is needed for comparing as numbers instead of strings.

The implementation is based on EF Core 5 and C#.

Possible ways:
1) Building query with casting/converting and adding PropertyType to the CustomProperty entity to decide which type is it. This would store everything in a single table CustomProperties. That's tricky but doable, I guess. The problem would be filtering and ordering with casting everything based on PropertyType. Might not be possible to create every queryable as translatable to TSQL.
2) Creating a separate table per a custom property type so creating tables: StringProperties, IntegerProperties, DecimalProperties which would simply be {string Name, int Number}, {string Name, string Value}, {string Name, DateTime Timestamp} etc. And all these would have a relationship to Person entity, lazy loaded. This would be kinda easy to implement, query and adding new types in the future.
3) The same as 2 but with latest EF Core 5 feature of Table Per Type, meaning there is a base class e.g. CustomProperty with Id and Name and specific classes deriving from base class e.g. IntegerProperty : CustomProperty. EF Core 5 creates the hierarchy in SQL correctly along with FKs. So pretty similar but using the latest feature.
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