dantro

by sharding I mean partionioning of database tables

if you can connect your scanner via a port to your server you can use "Direct IO FUNCTIONS" in php. just take a look here: http://de3.php.net/manual/en/ref.dio.php

a good solution would be to have a log table for all video views. therefore you are free to analyze this data later on like views per hour etc. on a next step you build a cronjob which counts all video views and writes the sum into one table field (update col countviews in video table).

hello i have a big problem dealing with shards. i would be pleased to get your ideas and practical solutions to my problem. imagine following scenario: i have 5 mysql shards, sharded by primary key. shard #1 (id 1-1,000,000) shard #2 (id 1,000,001-2,000,000) shard #3 (id 2,000,001-3,000,000) shard #4 (id 3,000,001-4,000,000) shard #5 (id 4,000,001-5,000,000) that way it is pretty easy to build a application to connect to the right shard if i have the id. now the problem: what do you do, if you consider to get your entries if you don't use primary key id. for example you want to get the entries by another key (date for example). do you have any ways to build appropriate keys to get your data on different ways out of shards ? please help me.. i hope someone already did something like that. what do you do if you sharded your data on different physical machines and want to get the data our on different ways. thank you very much dan