Question

I am building a web app, and I am thinking about how I should build the database.

The app will be feed by keywords, then it will retrieve info for those keywords and save it into the database with a datestamp. The info will be from different source like, num of results from yahoo, diggs from the last month that contains that keyword, etc.

So I was thinking the a simple way to do it would be to have a table with an id and keyword column where the keywords would be stored, and another table for ALL the data with a id(same as keyword), datestamp, data_name, data_content.

Is this a good way to use mysql or could this in someway make queries slower or sometihng? should I build tables for each type of data I want to use? I am mostly looking for a good performance on the application.

Another reason I would like to use only one table for the data is that I can easly add more data_name(s) without touching the db.

Answer 1

The second table i.e, the table which contains various information about keywords ,id column in this table can be used as a foreign key to the first table id column