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well, not knowing the details of your database schema will certainly hinder my reply. However, the general appraoch for database design is to make it conform to the Third Normal Form (3NF)
Here's are a few links to articles describing Data Normalization
Database Normalization Basics
First Normal Form
Second Normal Form
Third Normal Form hope this helps :-)

In reply to Re: How many mySQL tables is too many? (While working with DBI) by screamingeagle
in thread How many mySQL tables is too many? (While working with DBI) by Anonymous Monk

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