Database design for user settings

Question

Which of the following options, if any, is considered best practice when designing a table used to store user settings?

(OPTION 1)

USER_SETTINGS
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Answer 1

Consider this simple example.

If you have 2 tables, UserTable(contains user details) and SettingsTable(contains settings details). Then create a new table UserSettings for relating the UserTable and SettingsTable as shown below

Hope you will found the right solution from this example.