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Re: ORACLE vs INFORMIX vs MS SQL SERVER

From: Matthew Winn <matthew_at_mwinn.powernet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:53:42 GMT
Message-ID: <72e7ml$djf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>


In article <364a4824.98900500_at_news2.newscene.com>,   jjlee33_at_hotmail.com (JJ Lee) wrote:
> Take a look at www.terraserver.microsoft.com for a demonstration of
> the world's largest online database.

It only has 294 million rows, which is a pretty small database by most standards. It claims to have that many, anyway: when I tried to view the picture closest to my home it wasn't able to find the image. Not the most impressive technology I've seen.

Matthew Winn

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