storing user settings

Newbie question: I have an app in which I want to be able to store certain basic settings per user (color scheme, form location, etc.). The book I am reading recommends storing these settings in isolated storage. This sounds good to me, but I am wondering what is the benefit over simply storing these settings in a SQL table I am already going to be reading from a SQL table when the user logs in anyway, to get other user information, so why not get the settings at that time Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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storing user settings

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The user settings section will be surrounded by a try...catch block, so if something goes wrong, i.e. they can't access the SQL server, then I'll just use the default settings. Of course if they can't access SQL server then they can't log in at all, so the user settings won't matter.
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What will you do if network issues prevent the SQL server from being contacted
storing user settings

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