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Re: 90GB table on Windows 2000

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:11:15 GMT
Message-ID: <3DA7303E.FF9B1AA2@exesolutions.com>


"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:

> "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:3DA6F180.8DC6AADC_at_exesolutions.com...
> > "Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
> >
> >[Snip]
> > > Yup. Frankly, I'm getting bored with the "Micro$oft" and "Windoze" crap.
> > >
> > > My home server (2000) has been up for 221 days. It would have been
> more,
> > > but the previous 119 days were interrupted by a thunderstorm knocking
> out
> > > the power. One UPS later, and all is well. Even my XP desktop, which
> gets
> > > punishment aplenty and all manner of freeware installs, deinstalls and
> > > anything in between, has been up for 54 days.
> > >
> > > This myth that Windows is unstable is just that: myth. These days. But
> > > even so, I remember my NT4 servers at a large Insurance company running
> for
> > > three months at a time without interruption, except when I wanted to
> bounce
> > > them for service pack or backup issues.
> > >
> > > I blame the installers. Not the software.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > HJR
> > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Niall Litchfield
> > > > Oracle DBA
> > > > Audit Commission UK
> > > > *****************************************
> > > > Please include version and platform
> > > > and SQL where applicable
> > > > It makes life easier and increases the
> > > > likelihood of a good answer
> > > >
> > > > ******************************************
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > Great. Mine too.
> >
> > But then I'll bet you a burger and fries you didn't put 900GB of data an
> it and
> > open it up to many users attacking simultaneously with multiple tools.
> >

>

> Can I have a milkshake with that?
>

> OK, it's not 900GB, but it is 300GB. And no, it's not multiple users
> attacking it simultaneously, but it is my other half who wouldn't know one
> end of a keyboard from a shoe-lace.
>

> > Windows is a perfectly good O/S within certain parameters just as SQL
> Server is
> > a perfectly good database within certain parameters. And there are times
> that a
> > PostIt! Note is the right database too.
>

> Actually, that last one is a classic, and I intend to steal it without
> remorse.
>

> ;-)
>

> >But those parameters just don't happen
> > to include terabytes of data and high hundreds to thousands of
> simultaneous
> > transactions from multiple users using multiple non-Microsoft tools.
>

> Back in 1997, I was running 6 NT4 servers doing duty for 200+ people and
> with nearly a terabyte of data. (We were using DB2 at the time, too, but
> that's a different story!). I agree that pushing it that hard is taking it
> to the edge, but I hope you'd agree that the edge is quite a bit further
> away than the cheap anti-MS jibes tend to suggest.
>

> Regards
> HJR
>

> > Daniel Morgan
> >

The milkshake will be in your lap if she reads this thread.

Plagiarize with my blessings and I will agree with your last statement. But never forget that it is far easier for an errant DLL to bring a Windows system to its knees than anything anyone would likely do in a UNIX environment.

Daniel Morgan Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 15:11:15 CDT

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