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- From: map@sequent.com (Michael Perry)
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- Subject: Re: 500'000 records - who does best?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.195745.4985@sequent.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:57:45 GMT
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- In article <18774@mindlink.bc.ca> Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
- >500,000 records, averaging 30K *each*. Forget Sybase and Oracle on Suns;
- >go for a Teradata.
-
- Hmmm... given the price/performance of a Teradata I can only say: HUH?
-
- Makes _no_ sense [to me, anyways] to spend millions of dollars for Teradata
- stuff when a smaller SMP box would be a LOT more practical.
-
- >risks. Working with multiple databases (we tie in to Teradata, DB2 and PC
- >databases), I offer the humble advice that you never want to run
- >a system within an order of magnitude of its performance limits,
- >and what you are suggesting is probably outside the envelope already.
-
- Hmmm... outside the envelope. Kinda hard to imagine a 30-40 user system
- being outside the envelope, at least without a LOT more data to gnaw on.
-
- Mike
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