17.6. The table t_user

This table contains the information about the users accessing the database. This information is used to track the person who added a specific article and the persons who are interested in a particular article.

user_id

The unique ID of each user is stored as a BIGINT value (INTEGER for SQLite).

user_name

This alphanumeric field holds the mySQL login name of the user (maximum length is 16 characters). The length limit is imposed by MySQL.