Serializing data vs Storing it in a seperate table

[Kyle Teague]

What would give better performance, serializing a multidimensiona l array
and storing it in a single entry in a table or storing each element of
the array in a separate table and associating the entries with the entry
in the other table?

Having a separate table would result in two queries instead of one, but
you wouldn't have to deal with the overhead of serializing and
unserializing data.

-- Kyle