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One table vs multiple for multi-language blog


damianjames

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Hi all -

 

I'm writing a little piece of blog software for the pastor of my church, and I'm wondering database-wise how to attack it.  When it comes to performance, when you have a small amount of rows being returned from a relatively small dataset, is it more efficient to store everything in one table?

 

id (PK)

date (date)

title-es (varchar)

title-en (varchar)

post-es (text)

post-en (text)

author (enum)

category (varchar)

active (bool)

 

The main question I'm concerning myself with is to split the languages or not.

 

Thanks!

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The table looks pretty good, however, I'd do something like this:

 

id (PK)

date (date)

title (varchar)

post (text)

author (enum)

category (varchar)

active (bool)

language (varchar) - this can be es/en, or, whatever languages you might come up with in the future

 

It should make your coding much easier :)

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