A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer by bigbillheck on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:47AM (#29140390)

> compute is cheap

There was a whole thread yesterday about how a dude found out that it isn't: https://briananglin.me/posts/spending-5k-to-learn-how-databa... (also mentioned in the RbtB post)

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Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer by rustc on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:10AM (#29140620)

Depends on the provider. I've checked the pricing of 4 top relational database cloud vendors (Google, Amazon, Azure, IBM) and they all charge for the number of CPU cores and RAM you buy, not by the number of rows scanned like PlanetScale did in the post you refer to. They'll be more expensive than buying your own server but not nearly what PlanetScale charges for full table scan queries.

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Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer by late2part on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:48AM (#29140406)

When do the rest of the folks figure it out?

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