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Oh! Now I get it -:)
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com
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> Well ... you just make sure they are very W-I-D-E columns and use the
> substring function a lot.
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:24 PM
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> Jeremy,
>
> Are you serious?
> Where did you get this limitation (4 columns per table) for transactional
> (btw. did you mean OLTP?) systems?
> Are you ready to substantiate your statement?
>
> Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> ineyman_at_perceptron.com
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 1:03 PM
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> > From: Lyndon Tiu [mailto:ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca]
> >
> > Ths is real and happened to me last month.
> >
> > An "Access DBA" told me after seeing my Oracle/Postgresql database ER
> > Diagram:
> >
> > "Your database is too big. I took an Access course last year
> > and the instructor mentioned that tables should have no more
> > than 4 columns each."
> Would it be cruel of me to point out that s/he has a point? Assuming
you're
> talking about a transactional system, of course...
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