> You youngsters may not realize that there were billing applications > serving millions of customers long, long before there were any kind of > database management systems. They employed concepts called "flat > files" and "batch processing". And they ran on machines far weaker > than anything any of you have on your desk today. Even under > something like MS Windows, it would be absolutely possible to > configure 3-5 high speed printers and knock out 100,000 bills per hour > from an Intel single CPU box. You really have no appreciation of how > much power you actually have at your disposal.
Perhaps you underestimate us, or me at least :-D . The precise reason I am arguing against sharding is because I know that performant design principles as well as optimization and other proper techniques make voodoo like sharding a clever solution to a problem that shouldn't exist with the raw power available in modern hardware. As I said in a previous post, my old laptop could handle a DB that cost the equivalent of a house to manage in a previous age of the IT history. - Naz. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
