> The "right" way to do this would be your second way, where there would be
> one row per answer. I can't really grasp how the questions and answers
> relate to anything else, so I'm making a lot of assumptions.
>
> If you are concerned that this technique is too slow, because it involves
> linking two tables, there is an ugly alternative. You could store all of
> your answers in a single text field, with some kind of delimited format:
>
> "q1=answer1,q2=answer2,q5=answer5"
>
> And then parse it in your program.
And eliminates the possibility to do any queries against your database
that make any sense whatsoever.
Martijn Tonies
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