by Eric Sleezy E Jackson March 8, 2005
Verb.
Gamer slang meaning "to destroy" something.
Origin: In world of warcraft, one could destroy gear and turn it into jewel shards. Which could be sold for alot of money. When someone's account got hacked, the hacker would "shard" all the gear and sell the shards. They would then send the gold to themselves, or a stranger as a last fuck you to the player. This was also done by chinese companies who sell game gold online for real money.
Gamer slang meaning "to destroy" something.
Origin: In world of warcraft, one could destroy gear and turn it into jewel shards. Which could be sold for alot of money. When someone's account got hacked, the hacker would "shard" all the gear and sell the shards. They would then send the gold to themselves, or a stranger as a last fuck you to the player. This was also done by chinese companies who sell game gold online for real money.
She left her character logged in, so I went onto her account to shard her gear. I noticed she had an epic staff, so I sharded that too.
by wakkadoodooo June 28, 2012
Blue-haired sprite comic author. Knowledgeable about Mecha anime. Enjoys arguing with people who are convinced Gundam is the best thing since sliced bread.
<Shard> Swear to god. You go up to St. Peter, he'll ask you "What next-gen console did YOU get?" You reply "PS2" honestly, he'll just nod with a wink and a smile. You're in.
by Lyrai December 29, 2004
The hottest bitch you will ever meet. She is the glue to the group and a voice to be heard. She will be the truest friend you will ever meet and she will make you feel like you're the only one that matters. She has a rocking body and an amazing charm about her, if you meet a Sharde make sure to wife that down because she is on demand.
God I love me some Sharde.
by askmic December 21, 2016
Splitting a database into several pieces, usually to improve the speed and reliability of your application.
Sharding strictly speaking is a synonym for "horizontal partitioning" or dividing up a database table by its rows.
In common use, sharding refers to having some data for an app on one database server, and other data in another. Often this is done by having specific tables hosted on specific servers, with a function determining which server contains the information being requested.
Sharding is frequently discussed with regard to large web based applications, but is not limited to any particular industry.
As a practical example, a WordPress MultiSite installation hosting several hundred thousand blogs could have the tables for sites 1-100,000 running on one database server 100,001-200,000 on another or 200,001+ on a third. An alternative sharding implementation could be to have the 50 busiest blogs' tables split between the first two servers all remaining blog data on the third server. Likewise, data could be partitioned based upon the geographic location of the web servers delivering each blog.
Sharding strictly speaking is a synonym for "horizontal partitioning" or dividing up a database table by its rows.
In common use, sharding refers to having some data for an app on one database server, and other data in another. Often this is done by having specific tables hosted on specific servers, with a function determining which server contains the information being requested.
Sharding is frequently discussed with regard to large web based applications, but is not limited to any particular industry.
As a practical example, a WordPress MultiSite installation hosting several hundred thousand blogs could have the tables for sites 1-100,000 running on one database server 100,001-200,000 on another or 200,001+ on a third. An alternative sharding implementation could be to have the 50 busiest blogs' tables split between the first two servers all remaining blog data on the third server. Likewise, data could be partitioned based upon the geographic location of the web servers delivering each blog.
When our site became so popular it kept overwhelming our database servers, we looked into sharding the database between five different data centers.
by Brian Layman June 20, 2011
by Tyler Durden February 1, 2004