A flexible foreign key

Question

I have a sql server database. I\'m developing a vb.net application.

Now I\'m thinking to have an \"Event\" table that should keep all the events related with my data

Answer 1

You could create an 'INDEXED VIEW' -- define it however you like to pull the objectIDs + any other relevant fields, as you've described, from record 25 of the clients table, record record 30 of the invoices table, and so on.

You could do the same thing with a stored procedure.

Depending on how you intend to consume the data -- if you're just pulling it into a vb.net datatable, either of these options should work fine.

A benefit to an approach like this is that you don't have to create or maintain any new tables in your database.