Re: large db question about no joins

2009-04-17 Thread Aaron Brady
On Apr 17, 3:16 pm, "Martin P. Hellwig" wrote: > Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > > > > > > > In an relational database setting you would have a table for artists, > > a table for cd's and a table for songs and a table for comments where > > people can comment on songs. All of this with obvious foreign

Re: large db question about no joins

2009-04-16 Thread Aahz
In article , Aaron Brady wrote: > >Wait a second., how many legs in the zoo?? That's so you can find out how many to pull. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an

Re: large db question about no joins

2009-04-16 Thread Aaron Brady
On Apr 16, 1:45 pm, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > [off but interesting topic] > > Hi folks, I've come across many times the claim that 'joins are bad' > for large databases because they don't scale. Okay, makes sense, we > agree. But what I don't get, although I watched a couple of online > videos on