Re: Book about query processing / query optimization searched

--CELKO-- wrote:
> Database Tuning by Dennis Shasha $ Philippe Bonnet (ISBN
> 1-55860-753-6) is a pretty good overview. But I would head for
> academic publications like TODS from ACM and look at articles. Cheap,
> fast storage and parallelism in the hardware is changing everything.
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hmmm. You've been following my sundry blogging?? :) Just kidding. But not about the point. I don't follow hardware all that closely; then I ran across a reference to an interview with Linus Torvalds, which I read. In it, he referred to file systems and the looming presence of solid state disks.

Which got me to thinking: if there's no rotational delay in the file system, then what happens to the standard objection to the Relational Database; joins are toooooo sloooow. And then, why not, finally, follow the mantra: one fact, one place, one time?

Mayhaps this will shut up the knuckleheads. Received on Fri Oct 12 2007 - 22:15:32 CDT