That's a tough one to reply too.

You'd have to give us the name of the fields. What is going to be stored in those fields. Relations with fields in other tables.

Just by knowing that there are 78 fields is not enough. Without the big picture I don't see how anybody could answer this one way or another.

For a starter:

Define entities and sets? What do those mean?

>I am building an additional table (.DBF) for my VFP8 application. I'm trying to normalize, de-normalize to maxium efficiency. If this data does not need to be split up (normalized) between 2 or more tables, I'd prefer keeping it in one table. I'll have at least 78 fields (13 distinct entities times a multiple; eg. 6 sets = 13 * 6; 7 sets = 13 * 7, etc.)
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>Thanks,
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>dbk