Re: Are there performance advantages in storing bulky field in separate table?

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Robert Treat
<xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Maybe I've been reading too much Pascal again lately, but if only 1% of your
> rows are going to have data in this column, personally, I'd put it in a
> separate table.

thanks for that Robert - it does match my (completely groundless)
first impression.

In the nature of debate, would you mind passing on the pascal-related
reasons why you'd put the data in another table?

cheers,
Ian