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AVB

Posted Monday, October 22, 2012 7:15 AM

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I'm building an import package for a CSV file that has about 200 columns. If every column was maxed out it would be about 2200 bytes and is well below the max table size. Should I split this up into multiple tables because of the amount of columns?

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Sean Lange

Posted Monday, October 22, 2012 9:29 AM

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AVB (10/22/2012)

My guess is that with that many columns the data could stand to be normalized. I would import it into a wide table and then normalize it. I don't see any reason to break this into 2 tables. If the rows were too wide then yes but otherwise it is going to be more work than needed.

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Posted Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:23 AM

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Sean,

Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.

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