config tests

Hello! I just made some speed tests getting configuration from DB. For now I figured 2 ways doing this. 1. One value in each row id | name | val ---------------------- 1 | name1 | value1 ........ 2. using serialize($config) and saving this in one row. $config is predefined array of configuration. I test this with 100 config values. First I read all 100 rows for 1st example, then I read only one row and then unserialize this to get array. Here is result: 1st example 0.0478450059891 86.74% 2nd example 0.0073139667511 13.26% There you can see speed of second example. I wan't to know what do you think about this. And what's your solutions of reading config from DB. I saw that many big project still use first example. -- Best regards, Uros