Fabian Pascal tends to write as if the point of database work were to construct perfect ontologies. Perhaps we would be better off if we did that, perhaps not.

Fabian Pascal tends to write as if the point of database work were to construct perfect ontologies. Perhaps we would be better off if we did that, perhaps not. In this case, perhaps it would be a cleaner design to have a single table with ID, USER_ID, FIRST_VIEWED, FIRST_DOWNLOADED. But would I lose sleep over this? No.