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Re^2: DBIx::Class with two kinds of otherwise identical table typesby dwm042 (Priest) |
on Sep 15, 2010 at 14:41 UTC ( [id://860223]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Marshall, My first job as a professional in IT involved writing C++ wrappers for embedded SQL, so handling SQL statements isn't an issue for me. I'm certain I can craft decent enough SQL to do the job. But like most Perl folks, I'm interested in the new technology and so am designing a Catalyst app in my mind as I work through the Catalyst tutorial (recommended, btw, as a great intro to TT, DBIx, Moose, and Catalyst). So the question, in abstract terms, is at what point do you need to abandon the two table representation of data and go to a partitioned table implementation? Understand, from my POV, anyone who has ever thought of a file system layout understands where a partitioned table set is headed. You have a table with a column of pointers. The pointers point to the table to use. You would only do this when performance of a single table representation becomes an issue. I've had and maintained databases with a single huge table. It's no fun when your data load takes several hours and the database is flaky. So I'm thinking about ways around that. So, knowing whether DBIx supports partitioning is useful to know. Knowing that the TypePad people at Six Apart have run into this issue, and created Data::ObjectDriver to specifically deal with partitioning issues is useful to know too, when considering ORMs. David.
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