Re: SQL Humor

JT wrote:
> Consider what percentage of database servers in production have
> terabytes of unused disk storage available for whatever machiavelian
> database model some theorist chooses to dream up? Within the next 50 years,
> advances in quantum mechanics may allow for transdimentional data storage,
> but today we are constrained by budgets and the limitations of silicon and
> magnetic metal plates.
> What impact the 2 byte overhead has on the total width of a record
> depends on how many VarChar columns are included on the record layout. None
> of the top three database server platforms have native support for data
> compression, but even if they did, there is still the issue CPU cycles
> required fro decompression and the memory consumed by the uncompressed
> image.

Actually, Oracle has and has had since release 9. Received on Thu Aug 18 2005 - 14:48:49 CDT