To share a table or not share?

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Published on 2010-05-28T05:26:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 5:31 UTC
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Right now on my (beta) site i have a table called user data which stores name, hash(password), ipaddr, sessionkey, email and message number. Now i would like the user to have a profile description, signature, location (optional) and maybe other things. Should i have this in a separate mysql table? or should i share the table? and why?

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