small tables are easier to maintain and grow and quicker to search. need
more info about the data to really help. probably 1 main clients table with
basic info and then 1 or more smaller tables that hold certain specifics
bastien
From: "phpnews" <tony.yau@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: neebee: on table designs.
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:05:27 -0000
Hi All,
I have 5000+ individual clients, each clients may have 100+ records.
Each client can modify to their own records.
In the order of maintenance, robustness, scalability then performance,
which of the following do you think is best.
i) 1 big table with 500000+ records
ii) 5000+ small tables with 100+ records (1 table for each client)?
At first I thought (i) but then for robustness a colleague pointed out
that on (ii) if clients screw up their own table it will not affect anyone
else!
any comments/suggestions are very much appreciated
tony
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