On Tue, March 4, 2008 12:35, Sebastian Mendel wrote:
especially on shared hosters, where the most 'bad' database structure will exist, this could have very heavy impact on performance of the MySQL server, or?
I'm not backed by any facts. but my common sense says that parsing a many-kB long request uri should at the very least be comparable to calculating an md5 sum. Note also that on the total use of the database, editing or deleting these rows are relatively rare operations.
Thijs