On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For example, a user has name, address, height, weight, color, language, etc. > Those things can be listed in a single table. And now for the universal DBA answer - it depends. There are cases where that information needs to be normalized to another table. A person could have a billing address, a shipping address, a vacation address, etc. Or the application may need to store multiple addresses over time. The same person could have a home phone, office phone, fax, mobile phone, pager, etc. Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php