This is a general 'database' question that's been on my mind for the past couple of days.
I have a User
table, which houses all the user details. But, i need to save misc data. How best is it to do this? I notice WordPress has a wp_options
table which stores misc data (this question isn't related to WordPress).
Is this a sensible way to hold that kind of data?
EDIT: additional info
- the "misc" data should be searchable
- the misc data are mix of numeric, alphanumeric, "special" (e.g.: geo-coordinates)
- the user can invent new "types"? Like tags for example?
- Most users will have additional misc data, but I can't imagine having more than 200 users. Each with about 10 misc pieces of data (that doesn't fit into the users table)