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In a moment of weakness I pleged to make an absolute fool of myself for this months Meme Monday. I wish I could say that this happened 20 years ago, when I was but a young grasshopper. To my disgrace, this happened fewer years ago than I’d like to admit. Wow, that’s a lot of data! As part of beginning a new project that would publish catalogs on the web, I tried to do some capacity calculations on storing user statistics. We needed to be able to query the number of views a single page in a given...