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Subject: Re: Facebook has SQL Problems...
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:48:53 -0500
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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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