Database - Designing an “Events” Table

Question

After reading the tips from this great Nettuts+ article I\'ve come up with a table schema that would separate highly volatile data from other tables subjected to heavy reads

Answer 1

I can't add a comment to Ben's answer, so two things...

First, it would be one thing to use views in a standalone OLAP/DSS database; it's quite another to use them in your transaction database. The High Performance MySQL people recommend against using views where performance matters

WRT data integrity, I agree, and that's another advantage to using a star or snowflake with 'events' as the central fact table (as well as using multiple event tables, like I do). But you cannot design a referential integrity scheme around IP addresses