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- From: Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg)
- Subject: Re: 500'000 records - who does best?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:53:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <18971@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- > Michael Perry 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.
- :-) Yes, it WOULD be a lot more practical, if it did the job. IF.
- >
- > >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.
-
- It isn't the number of users, it's the basic size of the tables.
- One of our clients has pushed a table to 900k rows, 250Mb on an RS/6000
- with 50Mb memory dedicated to the Sybase server. Working with it
- feels like retiling the bathroom while an elephant uses the john.
-
- On a practical level: can you segment your app to use several servers
- (I mean multiple boxes, not processes)?
-
- --
- Mischa Sandberg ... Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca
- or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Mischa_Sandberg
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