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Asked: 2026-05-22T01:31:59+00:00

Lets take the example from Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/boston You can see that it’s a website

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Lets take the example from Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/boston

You can see that it’s a website with several different categories, each category containing a listing of places. Should I include all the different places/listing in a single table, or let each category have its own tables?

EDIT: this means having tables ‘places_restaurants’ and ‘places_nightlife’, instead of just having the single table ‘places’ and every entry of every different category will be stored in one huge table… Will this affect performance?

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  1. Editorial Team

    One table per category will require that you CREATE a table every time there’s a new category. I’d prefer CATEGORY and PLACE tables, with a one-to-many or many-to-many relationship between them.

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