# mySQL - Am I thinking right?

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [August 24, 2010, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mysql-am-i-thinking-right/313225 "2010-08-24T10:08:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mysql-am-i-thinking-right/313225/1 "2010-08-24T10:08:37Z")

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Hi

I am planning a BIG app. When I say big I mean it is for not least then 400 000 clients. Each client will add info to the database, and I thought that, it is to much for one table alone.

I thought that the script should generate a table for each registration and each database should hold no more then 5000 tables. So each 5000 will be created inside a new database.

Am I thinking right? How do the FaceBook work?

Am not creating a new facebook, is a tool for teachers but the concept is the same.