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Old February 27th, 2010, 12:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
David W. Fenton
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Default I was told "Fields are expensive, records are cheap"

=?Utf-8?B?RGVubmlz?= wrote in
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It has been my experience that posting something in the Database
group is a measure of last resort. This question is a prime
example. People want to talk about something that is not part of
the question.


I would say that this is your fault for the way in which you cast
your question. You were responding to a rule of thumb that many
database developers use and you went off on a red herring about
something that hasn't really been relevant in schema design for
about 20 years. That those who responded to your question didn't
follow you down that garden path is not an indication of a problem
with the newsgroups -- it's an indicator that you weren't asking the
right question, or you were doing so in a manner that was
unprofitable.

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