RE: Flat File vs. Database

flat files data bases are mostly used for molecular biology data storage, I do not know of any molecular biology data bank that runs undeer a real data engine, but it has many reasons why, and of course u can import these flat files and get them in to a real database engine, and OFCOURSE it would be MUCH by far more easy to administrate and develop but there is one point... there are more than I would say 50 different molecular biology databases and justone of them may be ofer 75 gigas.... I do not knwo (and please read DO NOT KNOW) much more in deep about data engines but can a data engine like oracle handle 50 different databases that together may be about... many many gigas.. more than 600 gigs and that grow very fast.... every day? I ask because I do not know. cheers

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Christopher Spence wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 05:55:29 -0800
> From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
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> Subject: RE: Flat File vs. Database
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> Hi all,
> We are proposing a project to convert applications that use flat files to
> Oracle databases. An essential piece of this proposal is to present to the
> management the advantages of databases over flat files. Are there any
> websites, whitepapers that talk about this? I know this probably is a
> no-brainer for most of you but we just want to have all of our ducks in a
> row so that we can make a strong case. TIA
>
> Dennis Meng
> Database Administrator
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