title: How would you structure a forum's DB schema?
body: <p>I'm building a little forum for practice. I see that forums like phpBB store the thread text in a separate table.</p>
  
  <p>Why? Why not store it all in the same table? </p>
  
  <p>Something like:<code>thread_id, thread_date, thread_text, thread_author</code></p>
  
  <p>Why is it done this way? How would you do it?</p>