Hey everyone. If you had a community website with thousands of members that come each day, how would you set up your database before building a script that allows members to edit, create and view member profiles.

I have the field where it allows a description of each member, I want this field to allow as many characters a MySQL "TEXT" columnn type field allows.

Is it bad to have one database store that much info? Would it be better to store the description field inside a file vs a database? Does it matter? Am I over thinking this topic? I'm trying to keep in mind that if this site grows, they're maybe 500,000 ppl coming in and out a week. That in mind, theyll definetly be a lot of queries to this profile database.

Thanks,
TT

In reply to Member profiles - file or db? by Anonymous Monk

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