MySQL Performance: Single table or multiple tables

Question

I have a 8 sets of data of about 30,000 rows for each set, the data is the same structure just for different languages.

The front end of the site will get relatively

Answer 1

I agree with the other responses - I'd use of a single table. With regards to performance optimization a number of things have the potential to have a bigger impact on performance:

• appropriate indexing
• writing/testing for query efficiency
• chosing appropriate storage engine(s)
• the hardware
• type and configuration of the filesystem(s)
• optimizing mysql configuration settings

... etc. I'm a fan of High Performance MySQL