Dear Monks,

I have a 600 questions that should be displayed to user (Pages??) , anyway I would like to know your opinion on the following:

• How to Store the questions in db? (Suggestion on db structure)
• How to store the answers in db (600 columns do not sound good for me)!!
• What's the most user-friendly way that I can expect the a user will answer all the questions (I'm thinking about: Save-state and return later).

As it will be web based script I'll be using MySQL DB.
Your suggestions are highly appreciated.

NOTE: The questions will have radio buttons (Yes,No,I don't know) so for example answers will be 1 CHAR ...

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