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Snapshot Table -- over the long run
Posted by: Fred McGillicuddy
Date: December 11, 2009 03:09PM

I have a table with what I consider to be a lot of columns. Some are INT, some are VARCHAR, and a few are TEXT. I want to preserve all previous content (like Wikipedia does), so anytime someone changes the value of a field (or saves the form) it takes a snapshot of the previous data and saves it in the history table.

Is it more efficient, over the long haul, for the history table to be set up like this: ID, main_table_id, main_table_column, value, user_id, time_stamp?

...OR to set it up essentially as a mirror of the main table with an auto incrementing ID column prepended to it? I was hoping to use asynchronous calls, so that anytime a field is blurred it would save JUST the data that was changed, rather than having a lot of duplicate data in the history table. But the history table would necessarily need the value column to be TEXT.

So, which table would be more efficient after a few million inserts and updates?

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