Re: Maximum of Columns in one table (9i)

Tony Andrews wrote:

> This is getting silly. The right number of columns for a table is not
> "under 14" or "under 50", it is whatever number of columns you get
> after normalisation. If every column is functionally dependent on the
> key then the table is normalised, even if it does contain 17 columns or
> 57.

You are misunderstanding the intention of our comments. Of course you are correct. What we are trying to give the OP is a rule-of-thumb by which to be alerted that further examination may be required.

And anyway we all know the number is 42. ;-)

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