diff --git a/_database/sql/migrations/2026-06-03-022928-0000_user_email_changes/down.sql b/_database/sql/migrations/2026-06-03-022928-0000_user_email_changes/down.sql
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+-- noinspection SqlDialectInspectionForFile
+-- noinspection SqlNoDataSourceInspectionForFile
+-- noinspection SqlResolveForFile
+
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS user_email_changes;
diff --git a/_database/sql/migrations/2026-06-03-022928-0000_user_email_changes/up.sql b/_database/sql/migrations/2026-06-03-022928-0000_user_email_changes/up.sql
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+-- noinspection SqlDialectInspectionForFile
+-- noinspection SqlNoDataSourceInspectionForFile
+-- noinspection SqlResolveForFile
+
+CREATE TABLE user_email_changes (
+  id BIGINT(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
+
+  -- The user whose email was changed.
+  user_token VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
+
+  -- The email address before the change.
+  old_email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
+
+  -- The email address after the change.
+  new_email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
+
+  -- The IP address the change was made from.
+  -- Wide enough for IPv4/6.
+  ip_address VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,
+
+  -- The user that performed the change, if known. NULL when the change was
+  -- performed by the user themselves, by an automated process, or in any
+  -- other context where there is no acting user.
+  maybe_changed_by_user_token VARCHAR(32) DEFAULT NULL,
+
+  created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+
+  -- INDICES --
+  PRIMARY KEY (id),
+  KEY index_user_token (user_token),
+  KEY index_old_email (old_email),
+  KEY index_new_email (new_email),
+  KEY index_created_at (created_at)
+
+) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_bin;
diff --git a/_database/sql/migrations_squashed/user_tables/user_email_changes.sql b/_database/sql/migrations_squashed/user_tables/user_email_changes.sql
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+-- NB: This is a manually squashed view of all the CREATE and ALTER statements,
+-- with comments attached to the fields for centralized documentation.
+
+-- noinspection SqlDialectInspectionForFile
+-- noinspection SqlNoDataSourceInspectionForFile
+-- noinspection SqlResolveForFile
+
+CREATE TABLE user_email_changes (
+  id BIGINT(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
+
+  -- The user whose email was changed.
+  user_token VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
+
+  -- The email address before the change.
+  old_email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
+
+  -- The email address after the change.
+  new_email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
+
+  -- The IP address the change was made from.
+  -- Wide enough for IPv4/6.
+  ip_address VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,
+
+  -- The user that performed the change, if known. NULL when the change was
+  -- performed by the user themselves, by an automated process, or in any
+  -- other context where there is no acting user.
+  maybe_changed_by_user_token VARCHAR(32) DEFAULT NULL,
+
+  created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+
+  -- INDICES --
+  PRIMARY KEY (id),
+  KEY index_user_token (user_token),
+  KEY index_old_email (old_email),
+  KEY index_new_email (new_email),
+  KEY index_created_at (created_at)
+
+) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_bin;