Re: foundations of relational theory? - some references for the truly starving
From: Patrick Latimer <">
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:53:53 -0500
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:53:53 -0500
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> In article <bnibhg$11vvi4$1_at_ID-152540.news.uni-berlin.de>, Costin
> Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com> writes
>
>>>Oh - and you want the stats? On average, to retrieve any one row, chosen >>>at random, you need to read just *1.05* frames either to retrieve the >>>row from its primary key, or to know that that primary key doesn't >>>exist! The size of the file doesn't enter into the equation. >>> >>>Cheers, >>>Wol >> >> >>Anthony, >> >>You've got no clue about how modern DBMSes work. None (not even your Pick >>probably) reads 1.05 frames, 1.05 means 2.
>
> The average family here has 1.8 kids! So if someone can have 1.8 kids,
> why can't we have 1.05 seeks? (Don't know what the American figure is,
> probably about 2.5 kids.) Or don't you know what the word *average*
> means?
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
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