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Re:BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of... by magicalhippo on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:26PM (#22377786)
This discussion reminds me of when I read in our database server's documentation something along the lines of "for very wide tables (more than 10 columns)" and I literally had to laugh out loud, as the main table at work is over 500 columns wide...

Gotta love organic db schemas with long history...

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Re:BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of... by hinkley on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:08PM (#22378645)
> the main table at work is over 500 columns wide...

This is horrifying, but at least not as horrifying as the public sector database I once had to work with that predated proper support for foreign keys, so there was a relationship table that was about 4 columns wide and must have had more rows than the rest of the database combined.

Even the database they had moved this schema to struggled with that many join operations.

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