Re: system setup survey

Access would definately do the job (even Access 2.0)...great at multi threading/tasking...;) Save the hate-mail...I'm joking...;)

Infomix or Oracle, as long as you know what your doing. Actually many DB's can handle it, it's what type of middle application you choose that's going to make or break it...like I said ASP with Access...hehehehe

Garrett Casey wrote:

> I recently had lunch with two gentlemen who are planning on developing
> a web site that serves information from a static database containing
> 200,000,000+ records. They asked what type of system I would
> recommend. I blurted out:
>
> FreeBSD
> mod_perl Apache
> mySQL (except I don't know how it would scale to 200,000,000+
> records).
>
> They have been leaning towards using a Microsoft server with SQL7.0.
>
> I am curious about what system you would suggest for this situation
> and why. The system should be able to withstand a decent amount of
> traffic (2,000,000+ requests a day???). The static database will
> consist of 200,000,000 records (except I don't know the size of each
> record and how many tables).
>
> -Garrett Casey
Received on Fri Aug 27 1999 - 03:55:10 CDT