Re: Has anyone developed applications with DB's over 100GB?

In article <69k3j2$feq_at_camel15.mindspring.com>, Marc Jacobson <sorry_at_noemail.com> wrote:
>I have never heard of a database so enormous. But I would think the only
>common database that might be capable would be DB2.
>
>Eric Margheim wrote in message <34bd383f.0_at_news.socket.net>...
>>We are about to start development of an application that will potentially
>>have a database size of over 100GB. We are trying to decide what platform,
>>O/S, and database to use.

There was a case-study talk on this at Oracle Open World. Satellite TV subscription service uses Rdb on alphas. Very interesting stuff, I'm sure it's on the CD of presentation papers (which I no longer have access to).

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>>If anyone has experience in development with a database of this size, I'd
 be
>>interested in hearing you opinions on what has worked and not worked for
>>you.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Eric Margheim
>>ericm_at_socket.net
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