in reply to (OT) Database design question

About the only sensible answer you're going to get is: It depends.

And more precisely, it depends on a whole lot of stuff you haven't told us (your specific application, the type of hardware you've got available, what the actual RDBMS software is, maybe the phase of the moon; the jury's still out on correlation with the price of tea in China).

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