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When Bad Schema Design Costs You a Rewrite PT 2. of 3

I called it multi-tenant role-based access control. The database disagreed. What started as a clean design slowly unraveled into a realization: I hadn’t built RBAC at all. I had built hope. This article walks through the painful refactor that followed.

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When Bad Schema Design Costs You a Rewrite PT 1. of 3

It worked perfectly; until it didn’t. A small database decision in a multi-tenant app forced a rewrite and changed how I think about system design.

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