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Old February 25th, 2010, 06:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
David W. Fenton
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Default I was told "Fields are expensive, records are cheap"

Rick Brandt wrote in
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When table modifications call for lots of new fields it often
means that a one-to-many relationship that ought to be set up in
multiple tables is being shoe-horned into a single table.


It also means that you have to alter your front-end forms and
reports by adding all the fields, whereas if you're adding records
instead, whatever continuous or datasheet form you're using to
display those records will just have more records in it, so there is
no need to alter then user interface objects.

To *me*, that's what the phrase means, that adding fields is more
complicated in terms of UI, which, to be frank, is where 90% of our
time is spent in the development process (rather than in schema
design/changes).

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