Re: Challenge: Partitioning is a wrong idea

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 7 Apr 2005 11:45:55 -0700
Message-ID: <1112899555.564169.108670@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>

mikharakiri_nosp..._at_yahoo.com wrote:

> Returning to the "scientific method" theme, a single test case can
> settle the issue once and forever. Create large table, fill in with
the
> data, and show how much does it take to accomplish a certain
> administrative tasks in both cases. I claim that for any
administrative
> task you suggest, I would find a way to accomplish it in reasonable
> time with normal table. In other words: partitioning buys up
*nothing*.
> Any takers?

I'm in.

Please reply with your draft design for the columns in the table.

Next step ... get us about 500 Gig worth of data to load.

Keep us posted.

Thanks Received on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 13:45:55 CDT