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    <p>You may want to look at an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value_model" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Entity Attribute Value model (EAV)</a> design for your data then.</p> <p>Basically you can have a table with table names, and some other meta-data on tables.</p> <p>Then, you can create a table for each of those rows to have the column data, such as datatype and name.</p> <p>Then, you have a table where you put the values for each column, in a long table.</p> <p>This allows you to dynamically create tables, or add/remove rows dynamically.</p> <p>For a comparison on relational and EAV you can look at this question:</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/870808/entity-attribute-value-database-vs-strict-relational-model-ecommerce-question">Entity Attribute Value Database vs. strict Relational Model Ecommerce</a></p> <p>If you want to have a relational view of this data though, then you will need to create triggers to help keep views up-to-date, and this can be a great deal of work to get that to work well. If you don't need a relational view then you should be fine.</p> <p>Another way to do this is with a NoSQL database (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL</a>), as the schema doesn't have to be set, and so you can just store the columns you need for that row.</p> <p>At this point I would go the NoSQL way as there are many databases that can work, and the reinventing you need to do is minimal.</p>
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