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I have a poorly designed database. One of the most important tables has 11,000+ entries. We would like to expand our system, and I am wondering if this table grew to 5x its size, would this be a problem? It’s 15360 kB in size… if that matters.
I’m using phpMyAdmin, the server is a Fedora Linux box (nothing fancy), The load is light. It stores just about everything our system uses.
I understand that you are worried if increasing the number of records to around 55.000 in’your poorly designed database’ will affect performance.
If you system works as expected now I think you should be fine with 50.000 records as well unless you have some slight performance issues already.
As most people mentioned 50k records is a very small number in relation to database table size and even with not normalized database there should be no performance issues.
If you are planning to expand the functionality of you system then perhaps it would be a good time to look at the database design as well, otherwise it should be reasonably safe to leave it as it is.