Re: Very Large DB

Jason D. Weil wrote:
>
> I am leading a development effort that will result in a multi-billion
> row database, on the order of 400GB. About 80% of this database could
> properly reside in a single partitioned table, each row being fairly
> small. There is some contention within our organization as to whether to
> implement this as a completely relational database (using Oracle 8), or
> to implement the largest table as flat files and use Oracle as a front
> end for accessing these data. Does anyone have experience with this type
> of problem? Have you had success with either of these approaches, or is
> there another, better, candidate?

Sure would hate to do a full table scan on that thing. Received on Wed Mar 25 1998 - 00:00:00 CET