Sharding, and all that

[James Laver]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Stowe
<jns at integration-house.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/18 Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org>:
>> Mark Fowler wrote:
>>>
>>> "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
>>
>> Is that when you throw it against the wall really, really, hard?
>
> Or make the DBAs roll naked in a bathtub of broken glass until they
> sort the performance problems out.
>

I thought after they "sharded" it in a particularly awful manner it
just felt like rolling in a bathtub of broken glass, as per Richard
Huxton's response...

--James