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abc123
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47 Posts

Posted - 2009-03-25 : 08:40:20

I have one table EmployeeDetials as follow

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Employee_Contact_Details](
[EmployeeID] [bigint] NOT NULL,
[HomeTelephoneNumber] [varchar](50) NULL,
[WorkTelephoneNumber] [varchar](50) NULL,
[EmailAddress] [varchar](50) NULL,
[FaxNumber] [varchar](50) NULL,
[MailingAddressStreet] [varchar](50) NULL,
[MailingAddressStreet2] [varchar](50) NULL,
[MailingAddressCity] [varchar](50) NULL,
[MailingAddressCounty] [varchar](50) NULL,
[MailingAddressState] [varchar](50) NULL,
[MailingAddressZip] [varchar](50) NULL,
[ContactDetailType] [varchar](10) NOT NULL)

so many times following columns have null values.

could u plz tell me wheather it is proper desing of
table containg many columns with null values?

Plz suggest me on the same

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2009-03-25 : 08:48:27

Are you using SQL Server 2008?
Then try to make the columns as SPARSE.

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