Question

Im making a simple score keeping system and each user can have stats for many different games
But i don’t know if each user should have his own score table or have one big table containing all the scores with a user_id column

Multiple Tables:

table name: [user id]_score

game_id | high_score | last_score | average_score

Single Table:

user_id | game_id | high_score | last_score | average_score

Answer 1

Definitely have a single table with the userID as one of the fields. It would be very difficult (and needlessly so) to deal with multiple tables like that.

You will likely want at least one index to include the userId field, so that the records for each userId can be quickly found by queries.