On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 07:17:19AM -0400, Peter Parker wrote:
[ Please keep your lines to about 72 characters, not everyone have
50" monitors with maximized windows ]
> This is offtopic, but since this newsletter deals alot in communications with
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> How does a site like yahoo.com handle the database of millions of users. When
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> Is it just a combo of indexing and a uber db server? or is it spread across mu
While I do not know how yahoo.com deal with this, you sound as if you
think that doing a query against a 10 million row table is a big deal.
Assuming a proper index, for a decently written server, this is peanuts.
Abigail
