user & role management

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Hi,

I am working on a winform program with also a webinterface.
I have 3 types off users: Employee's, Customers and Office users.

I want to have a stable and performant solution u work with user and role management.

So what's best:

- 1 big table with all the user information
- 1 table with common fields and a table/type with type specific information

... and how do i manage the user role's

In the first option there will be many blank fields, what about performance

Thanks

Posted 9-Jan-10 0:25am

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2010-01-09T02:31:00

wrote:
- 1 big table with all the user information

Well, that breaks DB normalisation rules so it should be well and truly avoided.

Why don't you take a look at the role and membership providers[^] as provided by Microsoft? Initially they were designed to be used with websites, but you can use them with desktop applications. They take care of users and their roles.