Hello,
i have table with answers to questions. Every answer is a column in the table. i.e.
id|q1|q2|q3
1|answer1|answer2|answer5
2|answer3|answer4|asnwer6
another option to save it would be sth like this:
id|field|value
1|q1|answer1
1|q2|answer2
1|q3|answer5
2|q1|answer3
...
The last one is not really useable when working with large amounts of data, when you want
to select i.e. 200 questions with answers it's 200*nof answers queries to get them.
The problem with the first solution is, that MyISAM storage engine is limited to 2599
columns i think. So what's happening if i have more answers than columns available?
Does anybody have an idea? VIEWs or GROUP_CONCAT doesn't seem to be an option, they are
all to slow. What's the "right" way to store and select such information?
Thank you very much.
regards,
Fabian
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