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Old February 25th, 2010, 09:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Duane Hookom
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Default I was told "Fields are expensive, records are cheap"

Dennis,
Just a comment regarding a comment regarding a comment ;-)

I made the comment: I took over a survey application at a hospital from a
programmer with many more years of programming than I had at the time.

Your response: I don’t understand what this comment has to do with the
subject.

This was all based on your statement regarding your "over 30 years
experience with relational databased".

Years of experience are not always the same as understanding and knowledge.
In your case, your knowledge may be much greater than 30 years. I'm not sure
how we would know that.

I was simply providing an example suggesting that I have followed developers
who had many years of experience without a basic understanding of properly
structured tables. In no way was I suggesting you don't understand
normalization.



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Duane Hookom
Microsoft Access MVP