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Re: Facebook has SQL Problems...

On 7/9/2011 6:48 PM, David Gibbs wrote:
On 7/8/2011 8:26 PM, Alan wrote:
A friend that is a dot-net specialist told me PHP "doesn't scale".
The concept of scaling doesn't really apply to languages.

Database's scale ... PHP will 'scale' just find if you run it on IBM i (assuming you're using the DB2/400).

I grinned and said oh yeah? How many SQL servers do you need for your
application?
Only one ... one DB2/400 database server that is.

<grin/>

david

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Yeah, that got him, he grinned and called it "load balancing".


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