Design Question for table - related columns

Hi,
I have some design question about table I am working on.
Here are the sample fields in the table,
process_begin_date
process_approved_by
process_signed_by
process_monitor
process_communication
the same way I have around 10 groups, for ex
other_begin_date
other_approved_by
other_signed_by
other_email
other_something
Question: Is good have all 50 fields in the same table? or any better idea?

Hi,
Number of columns should not be any issue, but, proper normalization may be better for your design and scalability. If you can explain what you are storing in this table, you might get help if you need to have more than 2 tables in this particular scenario.
If all these fields are related to a single entity, probably this single table is already normalized and needs not to be replaced by two tables.
Salman

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