Database design for school attendance system

Question

I\'m working on a project for a school where a particular module deals with attendance system. I\'m using LAMP(PHP 5.2+ MYSQL 5+) stack for development. Now the school stren

Answer 1

Checksum,

I echo Michiel opinin that this is premature optimization.

What you can basically do later on to improve performance is use the database archiving and partitioning features so that your database reads are efficient. I can sugest creating index on this table also. Anyways I do not believe 1 million records is huge. Databases today are capable of handling such big numbers. Also you will encounter the performance problems 3 years form now only

So go ahead write code rather than thinking of what go wrong!