> So I guess I'm left wondering what the real bottle neck the app > servers are attempting to mitigate is.
...just from my experiences with large DBs: > Is it disk to memory latency? Yes. > Is it memory to network latency? Especially, yes. > Some other latency? ...and database complexity. At times, an application server can de- normalise and do other things with its caching that the back-end doesn't do, so you win there as well. If middleware was not useful for some things, there'd be no reason whatever to use it. Nearly <g>. cheers, peter _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
