Re: Database or store to handle 30 Mb/sec and 40,000 inserts/sec

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:04:19 -0800
Message-ID: <1140559446.462256@jetspin.drizzle.com>

Serge Rielau wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>

>> Perhaps you should acquaint yourself with Sarbanes-Oxley, FACTA, HIPAA,
>> Basel II, or closer to home for you if you're no longer in China ...
>> PIPEDA and Bill 198.

>
> Daniel, since you are the expert, maybe you can find the quote where any
> of these talk about data-mining and statistics.
> But then again, maybe the reason for these rules is because some confuse
> statistics with accounting.
> Also the rules do not specify that you have to be able to get PIT
> answers for the state of the database. Many roads lead to Rome.
>
> Technology solution <> Business/Government requirement.
>
> Cheers
> Serge

I was in Vancouver at Oracle's office when I responded and we were discussing PIPEDA and 198. I have rather strong assurances that the Canadian government, your government, takes a remarkably dim view of financial numbers published by Toronto Stock Exchange companies that are approximations.

The laws, all of them I have reviewed or attended conferences on, demand accurate accounting.

If you are data mining for sales prospects ... no doubt you can tolerate inaccuracy and use DB2 or Informix. But if you are data mining for financial data I'd suggest you stick with Oracle. ;-) I'd suggest

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