My $5.00 on this discussion (quite fascinating and nostalgic actually). This is
a little long granted, but it was fun.
As someone who cut their IT in general and programmer teeth in particular on
the HP 3000 platform, in the time (and a land) BEFORE SQL, where we had only a
single database engi
I would like to make a suggestion, if I may. Granted, I do not understand the
underlying task at hand, but:
A table with multiple columns of the same type smacks of designs that harken
back to the days of mainframes. (STOP THAT!) The data described is a
non-normalized array of integers that is
