To see how static columns work, we'll create a new table called users_with_status_updates. Our goal for this table is to contain both user profiles and users' status updates; however, we only want one copy of a user profile even though each user might have many status updates. To accomplish this, we'll add all of the columns from both users and user_status_updates to our new table, but we'll declare the user profile columns as STATIC:
CREATE TABLE "users_with_status_updates" ( "username" text, "id" timeuuid, "email" text STATIC, "encrypted_password" blob STATIC, "body" text, PRIMARY KEY ("username", "id") );
Since the email and encrypted_password columns are properties of a user and not of a specific status ...
