Storing “votes” in a database

Question

I\'m writing what will be an intranet application, and one of its features is roughly analogous to content voting - not unlike what SO, Amazon, and many other sites do.

Answer 1

Personally as long as you have good indexes in place, you are going about it the right way. Depending on your usage, for performance you might try to avoid hitting the votes table by storing secondary count information, but overall if you must track WHO has voted something, you need to do it in the way you have listed.

I wouldn't bother moving to another database, if you are REALLY concerned in SQL Server you could create a separate filegroup to hold it.....but most likely not necessary.