I have always believed that you can create as many users as you like. I have been creating a user per app with limited database/table access for only what that app requires.
Recently I was told there is a limit. While I have never heard of one, or reached one, I still wanted to ask the community.
Note: I am not referring to max connections, but the number of users.
Best Answer
User accounts are again stored in tables in terms of rows and columns and also its respected permissions under mysql database wherein it has primary key as host and username. So, I don't think so you have any limitations. But you have something called max_connections that has to be set to a value, say it has 100000 as max that you can set. Then keeping each user connection in mind then we can go upto 99999 users connected to it parallely.
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