Changing storage engine; rebuild table; change file_per_table, ALTER COLUMN OF TABLE, Change auto-increment value, Renaming a MySQL table, ALTER table add INDEX, Changing the type of a primary key ...

Then skills table would have lots of rows with the playerid and the skills.<BR><BR>I've been using MSSQL lately so forgive me if MySQL doesn't do it, but also check into views, that might allow ...