Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 21st November 2007 21:22

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 21:29:06 Tom Miller wrote:

> Obviously, the way some people create database tables and automatically
> create a auto_inc ID column when they don't really need one should be
> avoided. Not quite sure how it could create problems though, it's just
> unnecessary database bloat surely!?

4 bytes for an ID, 4 bytes for a timestamp. It's not exactly going to break
the bank.