bruce wrote: >even though this might mean i get a table with 5 million records??? as >opposed to say a 1000 different tables, each with 50,000 records? > >-bruce > > That's right. Databases are made for this sort of thing. If you have a separate table for each location, constructing queries to pull data from a number of them at once will be an absolute nightmare, not to mention what will happen if you have to modify the table structure. For example, what do you do if you want to see all records that were entered yesterday? You run 1000 separate queries! You can bet that this will be slower than if everything was in 1 table. Seriously, put everything in 1 table.
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