Question

I am building a website that shows recommend pages for users.

Users only click next button to look at different recommend web pages.

I wanna check every single activities that users can make.

So, I will check page views that users actually see.

1. there is a 'user_pageview' column for each users.
2. the numbers will increase every time if users click next button.

I can send a query to update data every single time.

However, I believe this step will be annoying to my server.

So, I am thinking to save the data into session for a while and save it later.

What do you think?

Answer 1

Yes it will be “annoying your server”.
The same way you are “annoying” your car by riding it.

A database server’s intention is to operate the data – store, retrieve, filter, etc.
There is nothing essentially wrong with storing data in the database.

There may be a problem, yes, with index rebuilding (if any).
However, there would be a problem with tracking user session too.

So, I won’t bother with session until I have certain problem with database (which most likely won’t occur ever).