diff --git a/services/api/database/migrations/20240701000000_user_last_accessed.js b/services/api/database/migrations/20240701000000_user_last_accessed.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6c7a9860f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/api/database/migrations/20240701000000_user_last_accessed.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/**
+ * @param { import("knex").Knex } knex
+ * @returns { Promise<void> }
+ */
+exports.up = async function(knex) {
+    organizations = await knex.schema.hasTable('user');
+    if (!organizations) {
+        return knex.schema
+        .createTable('user', function (table) {
+            table.specificType('usid', 'CHAR(36)');
+            table.datetime('last_accessed');
+            table.primary(['usid']);
+        })
+    }
+    else {
+        return knex.schema
+    }
+};
+
+/**
+ * @param { import("knex").Knex } knex
+ * @returns { Promise<void> }
+ */
+exports.down = async function(knex) {
+    return knex.schema
+};
diff --git a/services/api/src/models/user.ts b/services/api/src/models/user.ts
index a26338bf9b..78e295a3f0 100644
--- a/services/api/src/models/user.ts
+++ b/services/api/src/models/user.ts
@@ -182,14 +182,15 @@ export const User = (clients: {
     let usersWithGitlabIdFetch = [];
 
     for (const user of users) {
-      // set the lastaccessed attribute
-      let date = null;
-      if (user['attributes'] && user['attributes']['last_accessed']) {
-        date = new Date(user['attributes']['last_accessed']*1000).toISOString()
+      const userdate = await query(
+        sqlClientPool,
+        Sql.selectLastAccessed(user.id)
+      );
+      if (userdate.length) {
+        user.lastAccessed = userdate[0].lastAccessed
       }
       usersWithGitlabIdFetch.push({
         ...user,
-        lastAccessed: date,
         gitlabId: await fetchGitlabId(user)
       });
     }
@@ -545,24 +546,12 @@ export const User = (clients: {
   const userLastAccessed = async (userInput: User): Promise<Boolean> => {
     // set the last accessed as a unix timestamp on the user attributes
     try {
-      const lastAccessed = {last_accessed: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)}
-      await keycloakAdminClient.users.update(
-        {
-          id: userInput.id
-        },
-        {
-          attributes: {
-            ...userInput.attributes,
-            ...lastAccessed
-          }
-        }
+      await query(
+        sqlClientPool,
+        Sql.updateLastAccessed(userInput.id)
       );
     } catch (err) {
-      if (err.response.status && err.response.status === 404) {
-        throw new UserNotFoundError(`User not found: ${userInput.id}`);
-      } else {
-        logger.warn(`Error updating Keycloak user: ${err.message}`);
-      }
+      logger.warn(`Error updating user: ${err.message}`);
     }
     return true
   };
@@ -659,6 +648,11 @@ export const User = (clients: {
         sqlClientPool,
         Sql.deleteFromUserSshKeys(id)
       );
+      // delete from the user table
+      await query(
+        sqlClientPool,
+        Sql.deleteFromUser(id)
+      );
 
       await keycloakAdminClient.users.del({ id });
     } catch (err) {
diff --git a/services/api/src/resources/user/sql.ts b/services/api/src/resources/user/sql.ts
index 8bf7d58202..9cfdbbaeb3 100644
--- a/services/api/src/resources/user/sql.ts
+++ b/services/api/src/resources/user/sql.ts
@@ -38,4 +38,23 @@ export const Sql = {
       .where('sk.key_fingerprint', keyFingerprint)
       .select('user_ssh_key.usid')
       .toString(),
+  updateLastAccessed: (id: string) =>
+    knex('user')
+      .insert({
+        usid: id,
+        lastAccessed: knex.fn.now(),
+      })
+      .onConflict('usid')
+      .merge()
+      .toString(),
+  selectLastAccessed: (id: string) =>
+    knex('user')
+      .select('last_accessed')
+      .where('usid','=',id)
+      .toString(),
+  deleteFromUser: (id: string) =>
+    knex('user')
+      .where('usid', id)
+      .delete()
+      .toString(),
 };