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jung1975
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Posted - 01/13/2005 :  11:21:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
What is the maximum number of columns that you can create in one table? Let's say the data type of each column is smallint 2 ( except two columns are varchar(300) )

MichaelP
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Posted - 01/13/2005 :  11:25:04  Show Profile  Visit MichaelP's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I believe that it's 255 or 256.
Usually it's not a good idea to have a table with that many columns. It usually indicates a bad design.

Michael

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Seventhnight
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Posted - 01/13/2005 :  11:26:07  Show Profile  Visit Seventhnight's Homepage  Reply with Quote
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From BOL
SQL Server can have as many as two billion tables per database and 1,024 columns per table. The number of rows and total size of the table are limited only by the available storage. The maximum number of bytes per row is 8,060.


Big question... are you afraid of hitting the maximum?? Why so many columns

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Seventhnight
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Bustaz Kool
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