How to store a data whose type can be numeric, date or string in mysql
问题 We're developing a monitoring system. In our system values are reported by agents running on different servers. This observations reported can be values like: A numeric value. e.g. "CPU USAGE" = 55. Meaning 55% of the CPU is in use). Certain event was fired. e.g. "Backup completed". Status: e.g. SQL Server is offline. We want to store this observations (which are not know in advance and will be added dynamically to the system without recompiling). We are considering adding different columns