Re: 100 Gb DB solution wanted!!!
Date: 1996/01/11
Message-ID: <30F55514.81B_at_venice.sedd.trw.com>#1/1
Bruce Pihlamae wrote:
>
> Ramesh Dwarakanath wrote:
> > We are trying to setup a database for an application which
> > will have a maximum of 100 GB of data to be queried upon at a
> > time but these queries will be few and far between.... Hence
> > the idea of having a database of 100 Gb size does not appeal
> > too much.
Did I miss something? If you need to query 100Gb of data it has to be *somewhere*?
> If you are going to use the data so infequently then why are you
> using an RDBMS at all.
Ah, now I see. Note that Ramesh didn't say *all* the data would be used infrequently, only that *most* of that 100Gb of data would be used infrequently. It could be the case that only 1Gb of data is really needed all the time, with the other 99Gb sitting around collecting electronic dust.
Matthew M. Lih
Software Lead, SAIN Project
TRW Enterprise Solutions
Received on Thu Jan 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CET