5.1. Planning the Entry Database Table
One of the most important steps with any new application is the planning of the tables that will hold data. This has a huge impact on the ease of scaling our application later. Scaling is the expansion of an application to handle more information and/or users, and it can be a tremendous pain if we don't look ahead when starting a new project.
At first, your blog needs to store several types of entry information to function:
Unique ID
Entry title
Entry text
Date created
Using a unique ID for each entry in the entry table enables you to access the information contained with just a number. This is extremely helpful for data access, especially if this dataset changes in the future (if you add an "imageURL" column ...
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