http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Database Design, modelling and Entity relationship diagram posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Entity-Attribute-Value model (EAV) is used interchangeably with name for name value pair. This article will try to address advantages and disadvantages of EAV modellinghttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Database+Design/62386/2008/03/24http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Database+Design/62386/