Hello Alan,

>True - if these additional fields are only very sparingly used.. perhaps
>but I'm not sure that even then you would win anything... the data is
>already very compressed, if no fields are filled, then very little space is
>occupied.

Alan you can not put everything in one table no matter how well
compressed is it. As Helen pointed out it is not a spreadsheet.

Of course somethimes you benefit from denormalizing data and I believe
everybody practice it but this is not the case ;)

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Alexander mailto:saho@...