RE: Is it just me

From: Michael Fontana <mfontana_at_verio.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:31:22 -0500
Message-ID: <001f01c47fd9$c882e9b0$390c0a0a@corp.verio.net>

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Cary Millsap Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:52 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.>>

You've obviously never worked on a government contract before. Almost all of the data stored will by definition never be retrieved. It's stored because operational requirements or military standards dictate.

On the other hand, all I have to do is drive around town. I see wildly successful self-storage businesses based upon the fact that people need to store stuff that they'll never retrieve, even if they are disinclined to admit it....

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