Re: Choosing a database for a DSS system (40-100G range)

Michael wrote in message ...
>Go with NT + SQL server 7
>if you want to see some large database performance go to
>http://terraserver.microsoft.com.

Which of course is a total whack of utter BS. I raised this issue some months ago in comp.databases.ms-sqlserver. But seeing that this is being crossposted to other database conferences, let's me swing my lead pipe again.

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Microsoft does NOT prove ANYTHING with their terraserver. For heaven's sake, that database has just over 100 million rows. It's not the size of the database that matters, but how well that database handles large volumes of rows. The "tiny" data warehouse (about 160+ GB) I worked on had 170 million rows in it's largest table.

Once again, the sheer arrogance of Microsoft and amazing stupidity of the Microsoft groupie market to believe that SQL-Server 7 is really capable of handling huge volumes of data by means of this so-called terraserver astounds me.
</rant>

Billy Received on Thu Nov 05 1998 - 00:00:00 CST