From: nsouto@nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam (Nuno Souto) Subject: Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records! Date: 2000/03/03 Message-ID: <38bf91c0.4418315@news-server>#1/1 References: <38ace385$1$8288@readdo01.news> <38B8BCE6.E45FD33E@qnet.com> <89et1e$1fn$1@web1.cup.hp.com> <89n6fq$1hb0$1@adenine.netfront.net> X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 952080293 144.132.166.169 (Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:44:53 EST) Organization: D.C.S. P/L NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:44:53 EST Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.sybase,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.aix On 3 Mar 2000 02:02:34 GMT, Norris wrote: >called distributed partitioned views. This configuration let Microsoft >physically distribute slices of a single table across multiple servers >but logically access the table as an integrated whole. Microsoft calls >this configuration a "federated database," a precursor to the 100 >percent shared-nothing cluster architecture plans for Yukon (the Shewt! They finally are able to do what I was doing in ORACLE since V6. Amazing. That's progress! I'm stunned. Of course, they had to rename it into "federated database" when everybody else calls it a distributed view. Makes it sound like a new technology. And all the idiots out there will go "Wow!"... Cheers Nuno Souto nsouto@nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html