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Asked: 2026-05-15T13:32:23+00:00

Ok, I am creating a game, I have one table where I save a

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Ok, I am creating a game, I have one table where I save a lot of information about a member, so I have many field in it. How many fields is normal to have in one table? Does it matter? Maybe I should split that info into two-three-four tables? What do you think?

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    Normalize the Database

    If you feel you have too many columns, you probably have repeating groups, which suggests you should normalize the database. See an example here: Description of the database normalization basics

    Hard MySQL Limits

    MySQL 5.5 Column Count Limit

    Every table has a maximum row size of 65,535 bytes.

    There is a hard limit of 4096 columns
    per table

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