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   Johnson to All   
   database structure problem - advice plea   
   06 Sep 04 05:08:49   
   
   From: johnson@spam.troll   
      
   Here's what I was doing, it is obviously stupid because i have exceeded the   
   "too many fields defined error"   
      
   I have to create a database driven application that allows students to   
   update the records of which classes they took, what grade they received, and   
   what semester they took the class in.   
      
   I was using one database table, with some unique identifiers for each   
   student.  Then for each of the 50 classes they have to take, I had 4 fields   
   each, one for whether they took it or not, one for the semester, one for the   
   year, one for the grade they received.   
      
   So all in all I had 4x50 fields for the classes and then the various unique   
   identifiers.   
      
   I just can't fathom how to simplify this problem.  Anybody got any ideas?   
      
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