Drowning in a Sea of Nulls
问题 An application I inherited tracks lab test results performed on material samples. Data is stored in a single table (tblSampleData) with a primary key of SampleID and 235 columns representing potential test results. The problem is that only a few tests are performed per sample, so each row contains over 200 nulls. Actually, there is a second similar table (tblSampleData2) with another 215 primarily null columns and a primary key of SampleID. The two tables have a one-to-one relationship and