"Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thomas Kyte wrote:
<snip>
> > o the cost of an 18gig disk drive that you just buy -- hook up to the
> > system and use for that one update and then throw away (yes, just
throw it
> > away) is typically less then what you have to pay someone to develop
and test
> > the procedural code......
<snip>
> And just to reinforce Tom's point - from a shopping web site
>
> (IDE) disk 160G £205
> (SCSI) disk 36.9GB £258.50
>
> You don't get a lot of developer time for £250
Food for thought this whole discussion. On the whole I don't like throwing
hardware at problems which this approach *could* be viewed as On the other
hand there is an argument that you are just buying an 'appropriate' level of
hardware for the task.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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Received on Mon Apr 08 2002 - 04:29:36 CDT
