Patent ID: 7155433

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a management component that handles information storage to one or more storage locations of a database, wherein the one or more storage locations comprise one or more available locations that are free of allocation to any particular variable; wherein upon request from a client application to associate a variable with a record of the database, the management component maps the variable to a selected location, of the one or more available locations, that is preformatted with a data type storage capacity that matches a data type of the variable; wherein the management component maps the variable to the selected location, of the one or more available locations that are free of allocation to any particular variable, to customize variable storage capabilities of the record for specific needs of the client application, wherein the data type of the variable comprises one of an integer type, a double type, or a string type, wherein the selected location, of the one or more available locations, is selected to have the data type storage capacity match the one of the integer type, the double type, or the string type of the variable; and wherein the management component maps the variable to the selected location, of the one or more available locations, that is preformatted with the data type storage capacity that matches the one of the integer type, the double type, or the string type of the variable.