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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:03:43+00:00

When a user registers on my site, they have their own table created in

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When a user registers on my site, they have their own table created in one of my databases. This table stores all of the posts that the user makes.
What I would also like to do is also generate them their own MySql user – which ONLY has permission to read, write and delete from their table.

Creating that shouldn’t be a problem – I’ve got Google for that.

What I’m wondering is, let’s imagine that I clock myself 10,000,000 or more users at one point in the future, would having that many MySql users affect my database performance?

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  1. Editorial Team

    For the sake of answering your question, a quick points… before I explain why you are doing it wrong…

    The performance hit will come from having massive amount of tables. (The limit is massive so should you ever reach that high, I would for gods sake hope that you recruit someone who can slap your database silly and explain why you have mutilated it so much). Excuse the harshness 🙂

    Okay, now onto how you should actually be doing it.

    Multi-Tenancy

    First, you need to learn about how to design a database that is designed for multi tenant application. This is exactly what you are creating by the sounds of it, but you are doing it COMPLETELY wrong. I cannot stress that enough.

    Here are some resources which you should read immediately.

    Then read this question:
    – How to design a multi tenant mysql database

    After you have done that. You should learn about ACL (Access Control Lists).

    If you explain what sort of data you are trying to model, I will be happy to update this post with a simple table schema to match what you might require.

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