Storing multiple choice values in database

Question

Say I offer user to check off languages she speaks and store it in a db. Important side note, I will not search db for any of those values, as I will have some separate sear

Answer 1

If you're not querying against them, you don't lose anything by storing them in a form like your initial plan. If you are, then storing them in the comma-delimited format will come back to haunt you, and I doubt that any speed savings would be significant, especially when you factor in the work required to translate them back.