I agree with Gary's comments (and some of the others), as well. If this were the script to one of those 3 to 5 minute little movies that show people how to do something, people would be raving about how rapidly the verbal script got to the point. There are no spelling errors, it starts out by identifying a very common problem and the very well recognized solution, and is generally well written and easy to understand. This is an excellent introduction into "decoupling" and "bridge" tables (whatever you want to call either of those today ;-)) and I'm really surprised that more folks can't see the value of such simple and to-the-point articles especially as primers to newbies.

I'll also state that one of the purposes for an article is to give people the chance to "cus'n'discuss" about such things so don't ever let that put you off.

Well done, Tim. Keep up the good work and hope to see another primer such as this from you in the near future.