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Re: Performance: huge number of records vs huge number of fields
Posted by: Peter Zaitsev
Date: February 04, 2005 12:09PM

If you always take all 600 variables use 600 fields structure. It will be much faster than 600 rows few bytes in size, especially if you will index.

If you only need storage and you do analyzes on application level you may use BLOB to
store data in XML or other serialized form.

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