Re: How many fields in a table are too many

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. Very soon we'll be
upgrading to 7.3 and we can them merrily DROP COLUMN half of them. Until
then...

The original developers didn't really have a concept of storing different
info in different tables.
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