Number of fields in a table are limited to 255
A Allen Browne Oct 7, 2005 #2 Fortunately, yes. That's about 4 times as many as you could ever need for a correctly normalized data design.
Fortunately, yes. That's about 4 times as many as you could ever need for a correctly normalized data design.
D dbahooker Oct 7, 2005 #3 allen i dont agree with that. there are perfectly legitimate reasons to have hundreds of columns. nothing is proper and throw your theory out the window. it was all written by a bunch of old stodgy ibm folk anyways
allen i dont agree with that. there are perfectly legitimate reasons to have hundreds of columns. nothing is proper and throw your theory out the window. it was all written by a bunch of old stodgy ibm folk anyways
D dbahooker Oct 11, 2005 #4 joseph you should be teaching theory not writing databases kid nothing is ever properly normalized and having a useable database; and a proper database are 2 totally opposite things
joseph you should be teaching theory not writing databases kid nothing is ever properly normalized and having a useable database; and a proper database are 2 totally opposite things
