Using a Single Row configuration table in SQL Server database. Bad idea?

Question

In developing a shopping cart application I\'ve found that I needed to save settings and configurations based on the administrator\'s preferences and requirements. This info

Answer 1

A Key and Value pair is similar to a .Net App.Config which can store configuration settings.

So when you want to retrieve the value you could do:

SELECT value FROM configurationTable
WHERE ApplicationGroup = 'myappgroup'
AND keyDescription = 'myKey';