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Oct 10 2007 by Manuel González Noriega
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Ed,
My comment about MS Access was a joke targetting kosso's remarks
(which I in turn hope were a joke too). I'm sorry if the sarcasm
seemed targeted towards Twitter; it wasn't.
I'm well aware of Twitter's size, technical challenges and phenomenal
response to those. |
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Oct 10 2007 by Alex Payne
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We're running MySQL on a monster Sun box with multiple cores, 32GB of
RAM, and just about everything spec'ed out to the max. Sorting by
anything except primary key still slows it down. |
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Oct 10 2007 by Ed Finkler
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Wow, those are both deeply ignorant and prickish things to say.
While the issue is a complex one -- rarely helped by smarmy remarks by
people who have little idea of the specific challenges a particular
app is facing -- sorting large data sets can increase processing time
for a query exponentially. I suspect the decision to drop sorting in |
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