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Is there a limit to the number of fields in a table?
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From
07/05/2003 09:49:39
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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07/05/2003 06:38:49
Jon Neale
Bond International Software
Wootton Bassett, United Kingdom
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00785701
Message ID:
00785772
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>One of my collegues is trying to build a table with lots of fields in and cannot seem to add more than 255 fields. I have a gut feeling that this is the maximum that Foxpro and VFP allow but was wondering if somebody could confirm this for me.
>
>Many Thanks
>Jon

I will expand on Çetin's remarks: If you need that many fields, this is usually (but not always) an indication of a bad design.

Just in case you don't know much about "normalization" (proper design of table structures), you may want to check my introductory article: http://www.levelextreme.com/Magazine/August2002/Page7.asp.
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