I disagree. It's worded differently but it boils down to the same thing. Which is the best way to store answers to multiple-choice questions that may have more than one correct answer along with essay-style questions. That, not withstanding, it is your post and if you want to say it's different, then we can do that. I'd still post the same answer as I did on the other thread. Ther answer that I posted will prevent timeouts and many other problems as well as giving you the fastest SELECTability for reporting and easiest/fastest/least resource intensive ability to check questions for correct answers.