# database relation using RoR

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/database-relation-using-ror/11642>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [April 13, 2007, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/database-relation-using-ror/11642 "2007-04-13T09:50:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dave\_Goodchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dave\_Goodchild](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Dave_Goodchild)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/database-relation-using-ror/11642/1 "2007-04-13T09:50:30Z")

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Why are names and user\_id in different tables? Surely it makes more sense to have those all in a Users table as they all relate to one user?

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**Author:** ![Dave\_Goodchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dave\_Goodchild](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Dave_Goodchild)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/database-relation-using-ror/11642/2 "2007-04-13T10:21:23Z")

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Sounds like a lot of work to me - how often do users change their first and last names? A simple update would suffice methinks!