Re: SQL Humor

I said none of the top three have it. ;-)

"vc" <boston103_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1124394529.671852.209990_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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> 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.
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> Actually, Oracle has and has had since release 9.
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Received on Thu Aug 18 2005 - 22:14:00 CEST