Re: i know your name

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Edberg
At 8:37 AM +0200 7/12/07, Olav Mørkrid wrote: say you want to keep track of who knows whose name at a party, storing one table row per instance explodes into n*(n-1) rows (a million rows for thousand people). a) can mysql cope with this, and it's more a question of storage and processing power?

Re: i know your name

2007-07-12 Thread Olav Mørkrid
steve i'm happy to hear your optimism, handling billions of rows sounds amazing. but i'd like to be fully assured. a frequent use of the table will perform selects that show: a) people you have seen b) people you haven't seen yet an average user will quite quickly build a list of thousands of

Re: i know your name

2007-07-12 Thread mos
At 03:31 AM 7/12/2007, Olav Mørkrid wrote: steve i'm happy to hear your optimism, handling billions of rows sounds amazing. but i'd like to be fully assured. a frequent use of the table will perform selects that show: a) people you have seen b) people you haven't seen yet an average user