I've run into a... situation... with a web app running off a hosting company's servers. Said hosting company provides users with 100 MySQL databases, each of which can be up to 100M in size. As new features have been added, this app's appetite for data has also increased significantly, to the point of now having one table which is around 120M. This is obviously an issue.

The hosting company has been contacted and they have stated that they provide no options for obtaining larger databases short of migrating everything to a different server.

So, in the interest of avoiding an unneccesary migration, is there any existing module (or well-documented technique that I could turn into a module) which would allow me to combine several of those distinct 100M databases into a virtual n00M database without needing to deal with managing a flock of database handles myself and figuring out which data goes where? (Note that simply putting each table into a separate database is not sufficient, as there's already one >100M table and another is likely to break the 100M barrier within the next several months.)

In reply to Virtual/distributed database with DBI by dsheroh

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