On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Baron Schwartz <ba...@xaprb.com> wrote:
> Victor, > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Victor Subervi <victorsube...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi; > > I have a shopping cart that will spawn a tmp table for every shopping > cart > > instance. Would it be better to create a separate database for these > instead > > of having them in the same database as all the other tables for the > shopping > > cart? > > It will not matter at all. But it would be better to choose a > different design. Instead of adding a table per cart, just create a > table and add a row(s) to it for every cart. This is what relational > databases were designed for :-) > That strikes me as messy. Each tmp table has as many rows as necessary for the products that are to be bough. To do as you say I would have to create a table with a zillion rows to accommodate however many products I *predict* buyers would buy. Therefore, I guess I should probably create a new database so as to not make a mess of the main database. TIA, V
