Best practice question

[Randy Paries]

Hello All,

I have a design question

I have a table that represents a Newsletter page.

This newsletter can be single or 2 columns

Here is my question.

Currently the table is defined as 
Int     articleID
Int     pagenum
Text    title
Text    body
Text    title2
Text    body2

So here is my question. 
1)there will never be more than two columns
2)the majority of articles will only be one column

Does a majority of two empty text fields out way the penalty of a join with
a "Column table"

Do empty text columns take up much room?

Thanks for any help

randy 

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