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Old September 6th, 2007, 11:05 PM
Pasquale
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I have a form with 8 fields, 4 of which are required and 4 are not.
Usually if a field isn't required I would create a separate table for it
rather than having a blank value in the table where required values
would go. In this case, I'm not sure if I should put all the not
required fields in one table or separate tables. Since any one of them
can be or not be blank.

I'm trying to find a balance between normalization and practicality for
the database, as well as programming.

So, are columns with blank values acceptable to a certain number? Are 4
separate tables too many, so that there aren't any blanks in a column if
they were in one table?

Thanks,
Pasquale
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