Re: A normalisation issue

Stratos wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to ask you a question about normalisation.
> I have got a long table with 8 fields(mandatory) that always store a
> value, and 20 fields(optional) than can either get a NULL or non-NULL
> value.
>
> Is it better to split this table up into two tables, one having all
> the
> mandatory fields and the other one having all the optional fields? Or
> is
> it fine to leave this table as it is?
> Thank you.

If the two tables would have a 1:1 relationship ... it is one table: Leave it that way.

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