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Database Design 101

I am working on the design for my database and can't seem to come up with a firm schema.  I am torn between normalizing the data and dealing with the overhead of joins and denormalizing it for easy sharding.  The data is essentially music information per user: UserID,

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New Website Design Considerations

I am in the design phase of getting a website up and running that will have scalability as a main concern.  I am looking for opinions on architecture and the like for this endeavor. The site has a few unique characteristics that make scalability difficult.  Users will all have a