Database Tables, more the better?

Question

Lately I\'ve been rethinking a database design I made a couple of months ago. The main reason is that last night I read the databse schema of vBulletin and saw that they use

Answer 1

It depends. If you're going to have 1500000000 entries of type 1 and 1000 entries of type 2 and you'll be doing a LOT of queries on type 2, separate the tables. If not, it's more convenient to keep only one table.

Keep in mind scalability:

• How many entries of each type will I have in 1 year?

• How many requests on this table will I be doing ?

• Can you, at some point, clear this log? Can you move it to another table (like archive entries older than X months) ?