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Posted by Igor on 04/17/07 14:03
On Apr 17, 12:18 am, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> Igor (jerosi...@gmail.com) writes:
> > I currently have two tables:
> > 1: users
> > id_user
> > username
>
> > 2: baned_users
> > id_user
>
> > i tought i could use something like this
> > 1: users
> > id_user
> > username
> > is_baned
>
> > So would it be better to use two tables like in first example or one
> > table like in second example? Offcourse, not many users would be baned
> > (i hope). I currently have 59 joins with baned_users table in my
> > stored procedures, two of those are executed on every access to the
> > website (2xtop 20 users), what way should i use?
>
> The second design is the more natural design in my opinion. There could
> be situations where the first design is better for performance, if you
> often need to review the list of banned users, but that does not seem to
> be a critical task in this case.
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 athttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books...
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OK thank you all, i think i'll go with the one table then.
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