[ic] Product Meta DB Lookup issue

Stefan Hornburg racke at linuxia.de
Wed Aug 30 03:39:47 EDT 2006


N.E.S.T. Solutions wrote:
>>"N.E.S.T. Solutions" <nest_consulting at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>My tables columns are built like this:
>>>
>>>Products table:
>>>sku description price (...) itemtype1 itemtype1brand (...) itemtype2
>>>itemtype2brand (...) 
>>>[around 250 columns, 20 item types]
>>>
>>
>>Have you  considered splitting the 250 columns into a 
>>separate table? Perhaps one table with sku, description and 
>>price etc. and another with sku, type and brand?
> 
> 
> Actually yes, that's part of the re-design, cause it's been growing way 
> too big. But first, I want to avoid having to edit my products meta
> options 
> by hand, cause I have to do this for about 20 fields (lists). Same for 
> other fields that repeats.
> 
> So do you know what I'm doing wrong with the external DB lookup?

First of all check your error.log for messages and the MySQL log whether
Interchange uses the correct query or not.

Bye
	Racke



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