hey all!

I'm working with MySQL and may be confronted with building a PERL web application script that needs to handle a larcge/or rich database.

Basically I want to know whether to use rows or tables.

The web app is for members to create their own individual polls, and other members on the site can vote for a choice.

Now lets say this site gets big big--100,000 to 500,000 members (thats considered big for me).

Then lets say about 50,000 of those members decide to make a online poll each day then that will be a lot of database updating.

--So my question is, should I make individual tables for each member to keep track of their a poll (many tables since many members) or have the poll data inside a single table--therefore many polls would be many rows.

I also want people to keep track of their poll results/poll history--therefore I'm not sure by searching one single table with many poll data and rows is a good idea? What is considered a large amount of rows to search through?

Thank you all! perleager

In reply to OT: MySQL - rows or tables by tanger

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