[Chicago-talk] Design Question

[Andy Lester]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Richard Reina (richard at rushlogistics.com) wrote:
> Will
> having 10 machines constantly querying the database
> server several times per second damage the server?

No.

> Does anyone know of a more
> efficient way of designing such a program?

How are you querying the DB?  Do you have some sort of ID number that
gets incremented, or a timestamp, so that you can say SELECT MAX(ID)
FROM FOO; without having to actually fetch all the rows?

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