Thanks Bryan! However I guess I have missed to say I have a requirement which needs frequently search out these records to form something like a visit history report. These reports is a little bit complex, which may need to group data by different criteria like the country of these users and usage among different months or years.
I think obviously just recording all visits in a single table should be the easiest way to write out the select statement. However the performance may be low, even if indexes are properly created, and the data set will accumulate to be very large if I use a single table. So others showed me some way to just discard these old data or achieve them to file systems to maintain a small footprint of the active data set. But the achieved data will be another obstacle to select out data easily. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Bryan Pendleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on a database design which can record down each of the visit >> to my web application. >> > > I think that's a great use for Derby, and you should be able to be > very successful, if you are careful with your design. The more > information about the details that you can share with the community, > of course, the more useful the feedback will be. > > One technique that I think works well with this sort of time-oriented > data is to structure it as an ongoing series of tables, of similar > schema, with each table holding a segment of time. > > For example, you might determine that you can hold 1 week's worth of > data in a table, so (since there are 52 weeks in a year), you name > the tables for 2008 something like: > > CREATE TABLE WEBLOG_2008_1 (...) > CREATE TABLE WEBLOG_2008_2 (...) > CREATE TABLE WEBLOG_2008_3 (...) > CREATE TABLE WEBLOG_2008_4 (...) > > and you store the first week's data into WEBLOG_2008_1, and the > second week's data into WEBLOG_2008_2, and so forth. > > At any given instant there is exactly 1 "current" table for this > week's data, to which you are appending rows, and some collection > of "historical" data which you can query as your needs arise. > > thanks, > > bryan > > >
