Re: Terabytes + database on NT

""Anurag Minocha"" <aminocha_at_herold.com> wrote in message news:EBBA6D3A81229C42981E3AEA79BF5A4E111236_at_jshemail.herold.com...
> Hi,
> We are in the process of deciding the operating system to hold our
 database.
> It is expected that the database will be in Terabytes and will keep on
> growing at a very fast pace.
>
> Is NT the right o/s for this or we should move to unix. If unix then which
> flavor of Unix.
>
> I must tell you that the dataase will mainly consist of scanned images.
> Another solution which is possible to limit the size of the database is to
> store the path of the images in the database and store the images in the
> file system. In this way we can use NT, but I am not sure of the side
> effects of this.
>
> We are thinking of 8i or later.
>

Weird. 8i is the current release. There is no 'later'. Why would you be thinking about vapourware? Assess that which is on the marketplace today, for tomorrow thou shalt upgrade, and it shalt be a painless task (ha ha).

As for terrabytes on NT, I will say just two things: I am a devout MS, NT and W2K disciple. But you want your head tested for even thinking of such a thing.

NT will not reliably scale into the terabytes. And if Microsoft suggests that it will, they are being parsimonious with the actualité.

If I were you, and implementing this in the next 4 months, I would be expecting to use 8.1.6 on Solaris.

Regards
HJR
> Please help.
> Thanks
> Anurag
>
>
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Received on Wed Mar 14 2001 - 06:17:53 CST