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Galen Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu wrote:
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>>There is just about no excuse for having more than 50 columns >>in a table.
>>If you think otherwise I would suggest you take a class on >>relational database architecture and normalization.
I intentionally inserted the waffle phrase "just about" because there are some valid reasons to have more than 50.
But as a point of view it should be the exception and should be due to a compelling reason. Which in the case of the OP and the desire to have more than 1,000 columns is in my opinion, non-existent.
Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Jul 20 2004 - 21:34:02 CDT