What's your point?
damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message
news:3C75697F.9DA1E7B9_at_ci.seattle.wa.us...
> With 30+ years in the industry I take strong exception to your responses
below.
> Real world experience dictates otherwise unless your IT/IS department ...
is
> just you.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
>
>
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> Keith Boulton wrote:
>
> > Stefan <sroesch3_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> > news:mP3d8.6609$Iw.14214_at_rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
> >
> > > In DW environments it is mandatory.
> >
> > That's what the salesman wants you to think!
> >
> > > How will you implement the sliding window technique without support
from
> > the
> > > database.
> > There is (effectively) no difference in this regard between partitioning
and
> > building N tables.
> >
> > > How will you implement automatic partition pruning?
> > It's not automatic, but I can do it "manually" for less than £40,000 and
> > that's the saving on only one server.
> >
> > > How will you implement parallel DML? and so on....
> > Again, I don't see this a particularly difficult process.
> >
> > > To conclude that. In DW environments it makes sense to spend that
money
> > It MAY make sense - but as I've said before, the cost/benefit
calculation is
> > rarely done.
> >
> > > you also get further features with the enterprise edition which are
needed
> > > in these environments.
> > and these would be?
>
Received on Thu Feb 21 2002 - 17:35:57 CST
