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Old 10-12-2012, 12:38 PM   PM User | #15
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Originally Posted by markman641 View Post
I don't quite understand how those tables would work. How would i store the list of countries per offer in a country category? If you wanted a new row for each, that would be a LOT of rows. Give me an example of each table with a test row?
This is not a knock at you personally, but I'm always surprised that people get hung up on having a "lot" of rows.

The important thing is to normalize the data.

A lot of rows in a table is 50,000,000 and even then that isn't really a lot.

Properly tuned databases with good indexes for the type of queries being ran, with normalized data and optimized queries are important. The number of rows, significantly less important.
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