Re: need info: small local copy of large remote database

falcon wrote:
> Hi,
> Could someone please point me to papers or books about how to manage
> links between a large data at a remote location and smaller cache of it
> at a local site.
>
> I need to allow my users to manipulate huge amounts of data on very
> tiny machines. The users can't have all the data available to them
> locally. I also don't want each of their queries to go to the network
> and bring back data. I would like a framework which understands when
> it needs to get data from beyond the local machine.
>
> I will most likely have an sql database on the server and something
> custom built for the local machine. In other words, I'm interested in
> ideas behind how to solve this problem rathern than pointers to
> packages.
>
> (I have started going through vldb.org as well)
>
> Thanks!

You may need a BI product like this:
http://www.businessobjects.com/products/businessobjectsxi/default.asp?intcmp=products2 Received on Sat Apr 01 2006 - 02:58:00 CEST