ASP.Net / MySQL : Translating content into several languages

Question

I have an ASP.Net website which uses a MySQL database for the back end. The website is an English e-commerce system, and we are looking at the possibility of translating it

Answer 1

In your case, I would recommend using two tables:

Product
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ProductID  |  Price   |  Stock 
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10         |   10     |   15


ProductLoc
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ProductID  | Lang   | Name      |  Description
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 10        |  EN    | Bike      |  Excellent Bike 
 10        |  ES    | Bicicleta |  Excelente bici 

This way you can use:

SELECT * FROM 
Product LEFT JOIN ProductLoc ON Product.ProductID = ProductLoc.ProductID 
                               AND ProductLoc.Lang = @CurrentLang

(Left join just in case there is no record for the current lang in the ProductLoc table)