Which of these 2 database setups should I choose?

Question

I have 3 types of content: blogs, press releases, and reminders. All of them have a body and entered by fields. The blogs and press releases have a

Answer 1

I would sooner go without any sort of "type" field, instead making four tables: content, blogs, pressreleases and reminders. Content has the common fields enteredby, body, and title. For each of blogs, pressreleases and reminders, they have an id that is a primary key and also a foreign key to a content id. This makes a 1:1 "is-a" relationship. reminder can have the additional time field. To determine what type of entry a content row is, do a join select.

This may not be the best in terms of performance but it's better normalized.