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Re: Trying to retrieve data where a variable is in an array
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: February 21, 2010 10:22PM

> I have a column in my MySQL table that stores the data, due to how it's received, as a comma delimited array. This array is of variable length.

Unless that's just a staging table, or all values in such "arrays" are always retrieved together, that's a misuse of a relational database, the first rule of which is atomicity--one value per cell. You need to normalise your tables.

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