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Sounds to me like you most defenitly want to use a timestamp and one table with 1000s of entries, instead of 1000s of tables. Not sure if MySQL is optimized for such a large number of tables, but a large number of rows in a single table is extreamly common.

-- Dan

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by perleager (Pilgrim) on Oct 08, 2002 at 22:57 UTC
    Hey,

    How would I use the timestamp way?

    would it fit this format:

    Click on the date you want to view data for

    Dates:
    10/08/02
    10/09/02
    10/10/02
    etc...

    Then if the user clicks 10/08/02 the data for that day would show up

    Data for 10/08/02:

    Anthony Jones
    John Doe
    Robert Jones
    etc...

    Anthony
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      yah, it should be able to do that. Each day, you add the entries of that day to a table, with a stamp of the day (say, 20021008 for 10/08/2002). When you want to see the available dates, you just do a SELECT DISTINCT Date FROM Table. Then, when you want to see the entries for 10/08/2002 day, just do a SELECT Users FROM Table WHERE Date=20021008.

      Note that I'm not a database guru, but this should give you an idea how to proceed.

      -- Dan

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