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Multi-tenant RBAC permissions schema template

Tenants, users, roles, permissions, groups, resource grants and audit log for fine-grained access control. This data model has 9 tables and 34 columns, joined by 12 relationships. FlowDiagram draws it as an entity-relationship diagram with crow's-foot notation.

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Tables in this data model

  • tenants — 3 columns
  • users — 4 columns
  • roles — 4 columns
  • permissions — 3 columns
  • role_permissions — 3 columns
  • groups — 3 columns
  • group_members — 3 columns
  • role_assignments — 6 columns
  • audit_log — 5 columns

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DBML source

The whole template is the text below. Paste it into FlowDiagram, keep it in Git next to the code it describes, or hand it to an AI assistant to extend.

Table tenants {
  id integer [pk]
  name varchar
  plan varchar
}

Table users {
  id integer [pk]
  tenant_id integer [ref: > tenants.id]
  email varchar
  status varchar
}

Table roles {
  id integer [pk]
  tenant_id integer [ref: > tenants.id]
  name varchar
  is_system boolean
}

Table permissions {
  id integer [pk]
  code varchar [unique]
  description varchar
}

Table role_permissions {
  id integer [pk]
  role_id integer [ref: > roles.id]
  permission_id integer [ref: > permissions.id]
}

Table groups {
  id integer [pk]
  tenant_id integer [ref: > tenants.id]
  name varchar
}

Table group_members {
  id integer [pk]
  group_id integer [ref: > groups.id]
  user_id integer [ref: > users.id]
}

Table role_assignments {
  id integer [pk]
  role_id integer [ref: > roles.id]
  user_id integer [ref: > users.id]
  group_id integer [ref: > groups.id]
  resource_type varchar
  resource_id varchar
}

Table audit_log {
  id integer [pk]
  tenant_id integer [ref: > tenants.id]
  actor_id integer [ref: > users.id]
  action varchar
  created_at timestamp
}

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