I'd be pretty confident of the mssql sites as well.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Ryan Gaffuri" <rgaffuri_at_cox.net> wrote in message
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> kaberjobs_at_yahoo.com (sir kaber) wrote in message
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> > Hey, I'm not to familiar with data storage or data backup in the
> > enterprise, etc.. And I was just wondering what kind of companies
> > usually have databases that reach in the terabyte storage marks ? I'm
> > guessing companies that go through millions of customers per day ? But
> > how many companies really do that ? Nokia, Siemens, Microsoft, Sun,
> > basically fortune 500 companies (companies with net incomes of over a
> > 100 million in most cases).
> >
> > I dunno, just a little bit confused on how companies are collecting so
> > much data in there databases/storage disks. Or just from those
> > companies alone it creates ample demand for seeing the Terabyte mark
> > frequently on the internet ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Akbar A.
> > // personal website: http://vertexabuse.cjb.net
> > // www.aliansystems.com
>
>
> the biggest one in the world is a particle accelerator at Stanford.
> they arent using oracle. some database called 'objectivity'. They
> added 200 TBs this year alone. supposed CERN in europe which is
> running Oracle will get to 5-7 Petabytes by the end of the decade.
>
> here is a neat site on this stuff.
>
> http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.asp
>
> surprising how so many are sql server. dont know how accurate it is.
> Im pretty confident in the largest DSS one(one at stanford). one of
> their DBAs posts to the oracle-l listserv.
Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 10:56:00 CST
