Comments on: So much for good database design… https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/so-much-for-good-database-design Web Programming, Linux System Administation, and Entrepreneurship in Athens Georgia Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Brandon https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/so-much-for-good-database-design/comment-page-1#comment-185749 Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:40:20 +0000 http://www.brandonchecketts.com/blog/archives/5#comment-185749 Its funny going back and reading my own blog posts 15 years later.

I’ve built a lot of systems now using the “sharded” structure that I was annoyed at with this blog post! It scales amazingly well to spread out customers into their own databases and separate database servers!

]]> By: Brandon https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/so-much-for-good-database-design/comment-page-1#comment-14 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:31:03 +0000 http://www.brandonchecketts.com/blog/archives/5#comment-14 Instead of having a bunch of separate tables, I’d generalize each of the tables, add add a ‘blog_id’ column that would associate a particular comment/user/etc, to a specific blog.

With that being said, the way theirs currently works does actually scale well with hundreds of thousands of users spread across multiple database servers. If you were to do it the ‘traditional’ way, you’d end up needing a very hefty database server because it would would be searching through tens of millions of rows sometimes.

]]> By: Aoleon https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/so-much-for-good-database-design/comment-page-1#comment-13 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:24:57 +0000 http://www.brandonchecketts.com/blog/archives/5#comment-13 Hi,

I recently installed WP Mu on my site and had the exact same thoughts when I saw the DB design. However, I am not a DB programmer. I would love to know your thoughts on what WOULD be a good design for WP Mu. And how it might work!

Thanks!

Aoleon.

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