My last newbie databse design question

[Dawie]

Hopefully my last database/table design question.

 

Which of the following two designs is best in terms of speed of access:

 

table 1:

1000 rows and 50 fields (cols)

 

Or

 

table 2:

50 000 rows (1000 * 50) and 4 cols

 

Thanks once again

[DylanBlitz]

I would think that the first would be faster. Less rows to search through

[davewatts]

The first table with less rows is the best option. However, it is important to have indexes applied to the rows that you intend to join or search on.

 

It is possible to retrieve data from a table of 5,000,000 records that is index correctly faster than a table with 500,000 that isn\'t indexed correctly.