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On Dec 16, 1:19 pm, scripter78 <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not looking for someone to give me code nor am I doing this for > homework a friend of mine is wanting me to build a site for them that > includes an instant messenger like what they have on facebook. > Initially I thought of Ajax to constently check to see if there is a > new message in the database or not. So if you were IM'ng me you would > send an IM which would write to a table and my page would do a > constent check to see if there was a new message for me. > > I ran this idea off to one of my friend which is a good database > developer and according to him this could potentially cause an > indexing issue on the database and potentially cause the db to crash > if the site got alot of hits... > > So now I am back at square one with this. Does anyone else know of a > different more efficient way of doing this?
