<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Herr Zapf:</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>You might want to just use the existing multiple database solutions to start with - perhaps, with "freshness" in mind, working off a slave database. After you have this working, you might look at some kind of actual migration (it would be a bit faster), perhaps utilizing feeds, which can be done with no loss of data.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Dealing with the politics is always an important part of the solution.</span></div><div> </div><div><font size="4" color="#ff007f" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif"><i><strong>Nancy</strong></i></font></div> <div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></div><div><br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bastiaan Zapf<br></font><br>I still hope we can do it without migrating the whole database<br>... there are quite a few databases of this kind and that a<br>"drupal accesses an external storage of documents" scenario would at<br>least give some control over unification of these documents.<br><br>> While 300,000 nodes is a good size, <a target="_blank" href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> has several times that many<br>> nodes.<br><br>I do not doubt that drupal respectively the underlying database could<br>handle those numbers, it's more like: once we migrate everything, we're<br>going to
have to live with that migration like forever. I do not want<br>that. I couldn't even responsibly decide if a migration were "good"<br>(that is, not lose any data that is thought important).<br><br>As you might suspect, there's a lot of politics in this setting.<br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>