Re: Terabytes + database on NT

"NT will not reliably scale into the terabytes. " - it's from where ? out of nowhere

NT scale itself means little when on raw devices without filesystem nothing limits db size

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message news:3aaf612d_at_news.iprimus.com.au...
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> ""Anurag Minocha"" <aminocha_at_herold.com> wrote in message
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> > 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.
> >
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> NT will not reliably scale into the terabytes. And if Microsoft suggests
> that it will, they are being parsimonious with the actualité.
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> 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
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> > Please help.
> > Thanks
> > Anurag
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Received on Wed Mar 14 2001 - 06:31:42 CST