Design Pattern to Reduce Number Of Columns I have a table with 49 columns, which is already normalized.  It seems kind of excessive, but since every field is part of a form and the main entity is the form there are no relations I can refactor to delegate columns to another table, so hence my question "Are the any patterns that target the reduction of the number of columns in a table?"

I've tried to do something like a Question - Answer schema, but since the Answer value can be of many different Data Types (Enums, Strings, Numbers), there is no generic way to parse everything.

UPDATE:

I hadn't considered but the data will be eventually serialized on JSON to be served from a WEBApi so having a lot of nested fields could mean trouble.
Look at your table from the feature usage side:


If you always access a single record by id, or work with data sequentially (example - answer for all questions) - continue to use a single table
If you plan to make any group by, filter or search operation over a range of records - main table PK + columns for these operations, second (and more) - other tables. Example - select query for specific topic.
Have TEXT/BLOB - move to second table
If number of columns unpredictable - look for JSON type of column 


Real practice shows that 3-5, max 10 parameters are used for search and group by.
These columns have indexes, and if indexes are created properly (including for foreign keys) - all operations will be fast.