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> 1. Is it a good idea to have all the columns in one big table ?
This will depend on the nature of your data. You say you have many varchar
columns. If many of them contains the same value, you could get substantial
speed/space improvements by splitting (normalizing) the tabl
Dear Mr. Jeremy D. Zawodny,
I am subscriber of the mysql.com MailingList and have received some of your
mails.
From the mails I get the idea that you have quite some experience with mysql.
We are planning to migrate our database (currently oracle) to mysql.
Our database consists of about 150