Re: not more than 128 columns?

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:46:29 +0200,
"Simone Krais" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear openoffice team, I am trying to establish an open office database
> for my work as an anthropologist. I need tables with the size of
> around 300 columns (data fields). It would be very complicated to
> spread it into multiple tables since the data is to be evaluated all
> together.  But with the size of 128 columns I can not go on. What is
> the problem?  Can you help me?

I'd seriously reconsider the database design *very* carefully; 300
fields in a table rarely makes sense.  It will pay off in the long run.
There's plenty of books out there.  A very good one is: Database Design
for Mere Mortals by Mike Hernandez.


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Seb

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