RE: Is it just me

Complete agreement, but I do have a special case answer to your wonder.

Actually, a special class. Every useful system I'm aware of that stores information that is rarely read is functionally like the black boxes in airplanes.

You never want to read it, but you've got to have it, and once in a while you have to read it.

There is another class that is about 1:1, that being operational data stores where you capture, cleanse, aggregate and pass on to datamarts, warehouses, or whatever other buzzword has been recently generated.

But that doesn't rise to your wonder about never retrieved.

mwf
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Cary Millsap Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:52 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Is it just me

Read-mostly, I'd say by 5:1 or greater in most cases.

If you ever saw a system that was write-mostly over the long term, then there's data going in that's never coming out. You'd have to wonder why someone would pay money to store things that are never retrieved.

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Nuno Souto
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:03 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Is it just me

Niall Litchfield apparently said,on my timestamp of 11/08/2004 8:52 PM:

> Directories - read more frequently than written
> Relational Databases - written more frequently than read.
>
> My experience of RDBMS systems is just the opposite. So do folk agree
> with the generalisation abve, or do you consider databases to be a
> read-mostly environment?
>

Read-mostly. By far.

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