mikeyhoward1977 on "Saving Plugin options on tabbed settings screen"

I want to change my plugin's custom settings page to be tabbed. I have added the necessary code and the appearance is all fine.

However, I do not want to change the way in which my settings are saved to the wp_options table - currently these settings are saved to a single field.

Question is, even with a number of tabs on my settings page, can all the settings still be saved to the same field or must I now have multiple fields - i.e. 1 per tab?

As it stands now, if I save the settings displayed on tab 1, the other settings are all removed from the DB.