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Re: Lots of Tables in a DB
Posted by: STARYNKEVITCH Basile
Date: December 21, 2004 10:59AM

Haafiz Dossa wrote:
> Does it hurt to have lots of tables in a DB? (Like 600ish).

This was already covered on this forum.

For a few hundred tables

1. It probably does not hurt

2. It is still a very bad idea. Tables are supposed to be thought of by human people, an no one can grasp in his head such an amount of stuff. You'll probably never code a function with 500 arguments, or a class with 600 fields.

3. What are your performance problems? I am not a MySQL expert, but usually, performance can be enhanced thru careful indexing.

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