Re: Multiple Databases or One?

2004-10-08 Thread SGreen
David Blomstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/07/2004 05:37:08 PM: > I'm working on several websites that will be driven > primarily by two databases - Geography and Animals. > The Geography database will feature information about > nations, provinces and states, such as capitals, > population,

Re: Multiple Databases

2004-06-17 Thread Garth Webb
4 or 5 tables is pretty small. We've got about 200 tables here, some containing over 100 million rows which still runs well on a simple PIII test server. You are definitely better off having one database serve this data. If you want a backup, the MySQL replication stuff works very well. On Thu,

RE: multiple databases: design question

2004-03-21 Thread Matt Chatterley
The not very useful answer would be: It depends on what you are trying to achieve. More usefully (I hope): I work with a complex web application which is also strongly modularized. This system is generally delivered using several databases, residing on different servers, to allow us to cope with

RE: multiple databases creation

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Muey
> Hi, Howdy > > I know that Mysql handles large database very well, but there > is a project > that requires more than 2000 small databases(about 20 talbes > with a few > rows) to be created within a Mysql server. Could somebody > tell me does it > make sense? Err.. Sure it makes sense I

Re: multiple databases creation

2003-08-14 Thread Mike . Kent
My recommendation would be to use phpmyadmin, http://www.phpmyadmin.net/. Takes just a few minutes to pull out the original database schema then feed it back to create new tables. Or you can do it with command-line instructions. 2000 small databases shouldn't be a problem as long as the server it'

Re: Multiple databases

2002-03-03 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Rebecca, On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 05:19, Rebecca Hall wrote: > I was recently assigned to finish a project started by a previous employee. > The objective is to collect data from numerous geographic locations, and > then analyze the data at the central office. The goal is to look for > combi