Is there a limit to how many tables you can have in a database? Would this be considered bad programming or whatever? I have a lot of user information and I’m wondering if it would be ok to have many tables?
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Is there a limit to how many tables you can have in a database? Would this be considered bad programming or whatever? I have a lot of user information and I’m wondering if it would be ok to have many tables?
If you’re considering this question, you should probably change the way you are planning to store data. It is generally considered a bad practice to have a database schema where the number of tables grows over time. A better way to store data is to have identifying columns (like a User ID) and use a row for each user. You can have multiple tables for different types of data, but shouldn’t have tables for each user.