Posted by pbd22 on 04/02/07 18:32

On Apr 2, 10:59 am, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> pbd22 wrote:
> > Could somebody kindly tell me what conventions and best practices are
> > used when naming a database server (not the database itself) and/or a
> > cluster of database servers?
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1178.txthttp://namingschemes.com/

Hi.

Thanks for that.

I have some follow-up questions.

lets say that a database server has seven hard drives.
how would i handle the namespace? so, for example:

for www.somesite.com

would the database server and associated drives
look something like this:

database server:
data.somesite.com

various drives on the database server:
db1.data.somesite.com, db2.data.somesite.com, db3.data.somesite.com,
and so on...

anybody out there build a database cluster before? how
did you handle naming?

finally, I am noticing that really big sites such as yahoo and hotmail
use garbage in their namespace. So, for example, this is hotmail:

by138w.bay138.mail.live.com

is there an advantage to using a less obvious naming convention?

responses appreciated!

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