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by Mikhail_Edoshin
104 days ago
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I saw tables with more than a thousand columns. It was a law firm home-grown FileMaker tool. Didn't inspect it too closely, so don't know what was inside I remember a phrase from one of C. J. Date's books: every record is a logical statement. It really stood out for me and I keep returning to it. Such an understanding implies a rather small number of fields or the logical complexity will go through the roof. |
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I used to work in a company that had all the tags in their SCADA system feed into SQL tables. They had multiple tables (as in tens of tables), because they ran out of columns ...