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Best Practices for Wide Columns in Tables

From Michael Cole <noone@invalid.com>
Newsgroups comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Subject Best Practices for Wide Columns in Tables
Date 2015-04-30 19:46 +1000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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This is one where there seems to be a lot of conflicting advice out 
there in google-land.

If we have tables with one or more wide columns - VarChar with size of 
over 8K in total - should these columns be moved to their own 
wide-column table with the initial table simply linking to them?  Is 
there much of an advantage/disadvantage to this, or does it actually 
depend on how much is stored in them, not the empty column widths?

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Michael Cole

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Best Practices for Wide Columns in Tables Michael Cole <noone@invalid.com> - 2015-04-30 19:46 +1000
  Re: Best Practices for Wide Columns in Tables Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2015-04-30 12:29 +0000
    Re: Best Practices for Wide Columns in Tables rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2015-05-06 19:46 -0700
      Re: Best Practices for Wide Columns in Tables Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2015-05-07 21:29 +0200

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