# Database organization **URL:** \ **Category:** programming\ **Created:** [September 25, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/database-organization/271582 "2008-09-25T01:36:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Icy\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f6c823/32.png) [@Icy\_Penguin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Icy_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/database-organization/271582/1 "2008-09-25T01:36:18Z")
Another question regarding how to organize my database - I have a comments system where each comment can be rated, so I want to store which comments a user rates (so I can limit how many times they rate the comment). But putting an array of this size into a column seems kinda awkard - it’d be something like this (a column called ‘ratings’ or something in the users table): 2498869\_0, 3452352\_1, 343525\_2… Where the first set of numbers is the comment id and the 0, 1, or 2 is the rating they gave (0 meaning a downwards rating, 1 neutral, and 2 positive). Is there any other way that would be better - 'cause that ratings column could be getting extremely long pretty fast…