Re: SQL Humor

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:00:27 -0700, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:49:14 +0200, Hugo Kornelis
><hugo_at_pe_NO_rFact.in_SPAM_fo> wrote:
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>[snip]
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>>So what exactly is the difference between a number that might reach
>>30,000 or a number that might reach 40,000? And how exactly is that
>
> Different machine instructions.

Hi Gene,

Isn't an RDBMS all about abstracting away from implementation details?

>>difference different from the difference between a 4096 character string
>>and 4097 character string?
>
> This is just iterating a little more on the longer string.

Toppling the size needed just over the maximum amount reserved for it in specific internal structures. Or, put more simply, it takes other machine instructions to handle.

Best, Hugo

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