Re: How many fields in a table are too many

From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: btober(at)seaworthysys(dot)com, <m_tessier(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How many fields in a table are too many
Date: 2003-06-26 13:24:53
Message-ID: Pine.GSU.4.44.0306260623150.9057-100000@eskimo.com
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> The original developers didn't really have a concept of storing different
> info in different tables.

That kind of stuff drives me nuts. Where do people get their CS degrees?
It took me less that 2 days to teach our ARTISTS how to construct
fully-normalized tables (it's a long story as to why I was doing this,
but you get the picture). Sorry for the rant. Sometimes I can't help it.

Jon

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