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From Shridhar Daithankar
Subject Re: How many fields in a table are too many
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Msg-id 3EFAF2CD.16911.34969AC@localhost
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In response to Re: How many fields in a table are too many  (<btober@seaworthysys.com>)
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On 26 Jun 2003 at 3:44, btober@seaworthysys.com wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:17:12AM -0400, btober@seaworthysys.com
> > wrote:
> >> > I have a table with 13 fields. Is that
> >> > too many fields for one table.
> >> > Mark
> >> Thirteen? No way. I've got you beat with 21:
> > Pfft! Is *that* all?  I've got a table with 116 fields.
> I *knew* a number of these responses would be forthcoming... :)

I remember somebody posting a database schema with 500 fields.

Don't worry as long as it works. When you have problems, post it on
performance. First advice you would get is to normalize it..:-)

Bye
 Shridhar

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