Re: How many fields in a table are too many

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:19:09PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> 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

Do normal form classifications go into negative numbers?