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Designing a Multi-Tenant Database Schema
Updated May 4, 2026
Short answer
Architecting for shared or isolated data across clients.
Deep explanation
Choice between 'Shared Database, Shared Schema' (column-based filtering) vs 'Database-per-tenant'. Shared schema requires composite indexes on tenant_id.
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