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Re:Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment by ufo on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:54PM (#11624552)
Why hundreds of databases? One for each stackexchange site?
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Re:Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment by aalear on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:17PM (#11624699)
Two per site - one for main Q&A, one for its meta.
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Re:Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment by nickpsecurity on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:03PM (#11625459)
You couldn't do one with some different tables? What was justification for both separate DB's and the Q&D/meta split? Just curious.
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Re:Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment by Nick-Craver on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:34PM (#11625565)
If you did different tables, that's even more complicated by making every query dynamic. It also makes backups, etc. far more complicated as well. Multiple databases is simply the simplest solution for multiple things that need a database with the same schema :)
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Re:Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment by nickpsecurity on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:21PM (#11625720)
Appreciate the tip.
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