tedd wrote: > > I don't see any reason to separate the attributes of the person into two > different tables. Why do that? > tedd, Funny you ask this. I have always thought the same thing. Then just last week I started listing to the Zend Dev Zone podcasts. I came across this one and thought it was very informative. http://devzone.zend.com/article/4497-The-ZendCon-Sessions-Episode-17-SQL-Query-Tuning-The-Legend-of-Drunken-Query-Master It is pretty long, but it contains a lot of good information. Listen the part about how many records you can contain in memory. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php