Re: Why using username instead of user id?

Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:

From db point of view only, normalizing is a "better" approach. Real-life implementation might have other priorities so normalizing is not always the best choice.

What would be better would be to have a "live" table of online users, and a "historical" table of old user activity. The "live" table would be small, so updates would be fast. The "historical" table would only get appended to, so it could hold a lot of data. Maybe for 3.0. Alan DeKok.