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Quiz: Database sharding (horizontal partitioning)
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What happens with a bad shard key?
Queries must contact every shard, even for lookups by the shard key itself
Most load lands on one shard (a hotspot)
Replication between shards stops
Indexes have to be rebuilt per shard