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Hossenfeffer

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In reading comments about the new forums, I wondered about the possibility of being able to list a full category's worth of threads simultaneously (minus whichever forums you have hidden in your profile).

Thinking this could potentially help the problem of people posting tech support questions, for example, in OT to get a higher response. (Ok, not the best example...) But this way, your question would be listed for those watching the whole category, but those who have hidden particular forums (say automotive, maybe) wouldn't see those.

Is that something that would wreak havoc on server load?
 
It shouldn't matter depending on table design. I would think it is just a where clause statement on a PK field (I hope) unless the tables are vertically partitioned, then it could be an issue because you would need up with a messy union statement across tables, then after the union you would need to sort the result set to get the pages to display (top 100 sorted by date). Of course you would only need a union if there is not a view or federated view to join the verticaly partitioned tables. If it is partitioned, I would expect a view with an instead of trigger for inserts. Ok, enough tech lol. If it is done, there should also be some kinda ID that shows what forum the thread is in.
 
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