On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Suraj Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Extracting and storing an RSS feed into a database is a very similar > question too. It has quite a few elements that can be optimised and > they were just testing your design, data structure and approach, IMO. > Imagine, you have a billion RSS feeds to process, wouldn't you have to > think differently about how you'll do trivial things such as sorting > or defining your database schema? Would you even be able to run a > single database instance? ... and how are you going to be > fault-tolerant? > Am sorry for i havent replied to the bulk of the email - i felt asleep..i got blinded. Suddenly i woke up and saw some references to 'you' and since the previous email was mine - then i presume 'you is me' :P I guess you didnt read the Q properly : storing the fields in a Mysql table(as in 'desc tablename') is different from creating a format(read 'Data structure') in which lookups are faster and is also feasible on the space(we learnt it in college as 'Time/Space complexity'). On second thoughts, probably you are right, probably the interviewee should have anticipated the Qs that 'desc tablename' will lead to 'design a custom rdbms'. beers, Venkat _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
