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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (411)	2/10/2001 12:42:56 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 808

If they had to go and change it to use a database, they should have used MySQL. For the read-mostly, write-sometime nature of messages boards (except for cerain Raging Bull threads, which are write-mostly read-seldom, LOL!) MySQL is TONS faster than Oracle. But Oracle is the more "professional" choice... Maybe they were thinking that the SI message boards needed to run on multiple computers to handle the load. I'm assuming that the "old" SI ran on a single computer. And that would require database replication - something MySQL (or Brad's old homebrew system?) can't do. (Though it is coming to MySQL soon.) Unless, of course, they'd have done something sensible, like splitting it across multiple computers by letter of the alphabet (say, first letter of the board name). :) There are simple solutions, and there are "professional" solutions. Some people always use the "professional" solutions, which, unfortunately, often blinds them to the right solutions... BTW, I'd be curious if somebody knows enough about Brad's "old" system to provide a short description, if that can be done without breaking any NDAs. (Did he ever post about it?)