Just be glad you're not stuck supporting a product that was designed about
6 years ago. "Hey, let's have each account get its own table"

[db1:~] find -L /usr/local/mysql -name \*.frm | wc -l
    8116

The programmer that designed that system is now synonymous with bad
design..


Atle
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Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Peter M. Groen wrote:

> On Sunday 11 December 2005 23:51, Charles Walmsley wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I do not have much experience with PHP or MySql although I have used SQL
> > quite a lot.  I am going to set up a relatively small MySQL database (circa
> > 40 tables) and we are expecting a hit rate of about 40,000 visitors per
> > annum mostly browsing a relatively low number of pages each.  We plan to
> > launch in March
> >
> >--------------------[ 8< ]------------------------------
>
> Ehm.. To be blunt... 40 TABLES??? You call that small? What on earth are you
> going to store.
>
> Fester
>
>

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